Y.
K. FOGEL (b. 1907)
He was born in Warsaw, Poland, and
graduated from a secular Jewish school.
Until 1936 he lived in Warsaw. He
was a cofounder of the literary group “Yungvelt” (Young world) and contributed
to the leftist legal and illegal Yiddish press in Poland. Due to police repression, he left for
Paris. He was a cultural activist,
mainly on the issues of the Jewish school.
He published articles in: Arbeter
vort (Workers’ word) and Unzer vort
(Our word), among other serials, in Paris.
Among his translations, there appeared in print: Romain Rolland, Mahatma gandi (Mahatma Gandhi [original:
Mahâtmâ Gandhi], with L. Goldin
(Warsaw: Kultur-lige, 1927), 166 pp.; Julian Borchardt, Vi azoy dertsien kinder on a kantshik (How to educate children
without a whip [original: Wie sollen wir
unsere Kinder ohne Prügel erziehen? (How shall we educate children without
a thrashing?)]), with L. Vaynapel (Warsaw, 1930), 83 pp. He was last living in Paris, an employee in a
travel bureau.
Sources:
See the biographies of Leybl Goldin and Leyzer Vaynapel in Leksikon fun der yidisher literatur (Biographical dictionary of
Yiddish literature), translated, respectively, at: http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/05/leybl-goldin.html
and http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/05/leyzer-vaynapel.html;
Y. Rapoport, in Literarishe bleter
(Warsaw) 96 (1924); Biblyografye fun
yidishe bikher vegn khurbn un gvure (Bibliography of Yiddish books
concerning the Holocaust and heroism) (New York, 1962), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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