Wednesday 30 January 2019

MARKS KOHEN


MARKS KOHEN (b. 1879)
            He was woodcutter and carver, born in Moliev (Mogilev).  In 1901 he emigrated to London where he became an anarchist.  His works: Di beygel farkoyferin baym dnyepr un andere dertseylungen (The bagel saleslady by the Dnieper River and other stories) (London, 1950), 98 pp.; Di ershte pyonern nokh erets yisroel (The first pioneers to the land of Israel) (London, 1952), 47 pp.  Both booklets were memoirs of his familiar environs, written in fictional form.

Source: Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Yekhezkl Lifshits


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