AKIVE FISHBIN (AKIVA FISZBIN)

AKIVE FISHBIN (AKIVA FISZBIN) (b. December 20, 1916)

            He was born in Warsaw.  He graduated from a Jewish high school and studied at Professor Krishtol’s music school in Warsaw.  He spent the war years in Soviet Russia and, from the end of 1947 he was living in France.  He published cultural-historical works in: Unzer shrift (Our writing) in Haifa; Yidishe kultur (Jewish culture) in New York); Kheshbn (The score) in Los Angeles; Dorem-afrike (South Africa) in Johannesburg; Yisroel shtime (Voice of Israel) in Tel Aviv; and Af der vakh (On guard) in Paris.  In book form: A yidisher blik af bethovn (A Jewish look at Beethoven) (Paris, 1984), 268 pp.; and In di ṭrit fun kinsṭler, muziker un plastiker (In the footsteps of the artist, musician, and sculptor) (Jerusalem, 1992), 313 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 443.