YANKEV-YOYSEF TSUDIKER (JACOBO ZUDIKIER) (1904-September
15, 1983)
He was
born in the town of Malkin (Malkina), Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland. He studied in Vilna in the teachers’
courses. He participated in the labor
movement in Poland and moved to Argentina at the age of twenty. He moved on to Montevideo and contributed to
the local newspaper. He later returned
to Argentina and settled in Buenos Aires.
Around 1959 he began working there for Di yidishe tsaytung (The Jewish newspaper). He published interviews, reportage pieces, articles,
and travel impressions about personalities in Latin America; he frequently
dealt with problems facing Latin America.
He also made trips to Israel. He managed
the publisher “Yidbukh” (Yiddish book). In
book form: Di groyse frantsoyzishe
revolutsye, 1789-1793 (The great French Revolution, 1789-1793) (Montevideo:
Unzer fraynt, 1939), 155 pp.; In di negl
fun toyt, fun di iberlebungen fun froy rokhl b. ostshega in der milkhome un in di
natsishe konts. Lagern (In the claws of death, from the experiences of
Rachel B. Ostshega in the war and in the Nazi concentration camps) (Buenos
Aires, 1947), 122 pp.; 50 yor
kredit-tetikeytn in boka-karakas (Fifty years of [labor] credit activity in
Boca and Barracas) (Buenos Aires, 1967), 143 + 111 pp. He died in Buenos Aires.
“Perhaps
no one,” noted A. B., “has written more about Latin American issues in Yiddish that
Y. Tsudiker…. He is a fine observer and
a deft portrayer who is able on the spur of the moment to pick up facts and put
them down in detailed writing…. As an
informant he is comprehensive, broad, and exhaustive; as a commentator on
societal events, he is objective and non-partisan.”
Sources: V. Shulman, in Tsukunft (New York) (October 1948); Yidishe tsaytung (Buenos Aires) (December 14, 1964; July 16, 1965).
Leyb Vaserman
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 458.]
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