YISROEL KAGAN (February 8, 1892-Fecember 8, 1958)
He was
born in Goniądz, Bialystok
region, Poland. He came to the United
States in his youth. He was a frequent
contributor to Byalistoker shtime
(Voice of Bialystok) in New York, in which he published an autobiographical
novel, In unzer lebn (In our life), which
describes the Jewish emigration from Bialystok to America, 1900-1950. He died in New York.
Sources: D. Sohn, in Byalistoker
shtime (New York) (September-October 1938; January-February 1949;
January-February 1952).
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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