BUNEM TSUKER

BUNEM TSUKER (b. July 29, 1907)

            He was born in Radom, Poland.  From his youth he was living in Brussels, Belgium.  For a time he supported himself in the coal mines of Charleroi, Belgium.  He left for Israel and later returned to Brussels.  He published poetry in: Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves) in Warsaw; and Belgishe bleter (Belgian leaves), edited by Beynish Zilbershteyn.  He also contributed to: Gerangl (Struggle) in Brussels; Yidisher kuryer (Jewish courier) in Chicago; Idisher zhurnal (Jewish journal) in Toronto; Der veg (The way) in Mexico City; and Yisroel-shtime (Voice of Israel) in Tel Aviv.  In book form: Vokhndike teg (Weekly days), poetry (Brussels, 1936), 76 pp.  He survived WWII in Brussels.

Sources: A. Bley, in Tshernovitser bleter (Czernowitz) (January 3, 1936); Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (December 27, 1936); Yedies fun yivo (Vilna) 5-6 (75-76) (June 1938); D. Lehrer, in Tsukunft (New York) (April 1943).

Yankev Kahan

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 458.]