BERL TSIMRING (BORIS ZIMRING)

BERL TSIMRING (BORIS ZIMRING) (b. 1902)

            He was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine.  In 1922 he emigrated to the United States, and there he engaged in business.  In 1975 he settled in Los Angeles.  He wrote poetry for American Yiddish newspapers.  In book form: Am yisroel khay, di negers, poemes (Long live the people of Israel; the Negroes, poems) (Los Angeles, 1970), 44 pp.; Di erdishe velt (The earthly world) (Los Angeles, 1973), 181 pp.; Ikh bin a yid, lider (I am a Jew, poetry) (Los Angeles, 1975), 181 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 465.