Sunday, 3 February 2019

FALIK KATOVSKI (FELIX CATOVSKY)


FALIK KATOVSKI (FELIX CATOVSKY) (May 23, 1908-July 19, 1993)
            He was born in Vertuzhen (Vertujeni), Bessarabia.  He came from the home of a craftsman.  He studied in religious elementary school, a Tarbut school, and middle school.  In 1930 he emigrated to Argentina.  There he began publishing stories in: Di prese (The press) in Buenos Aires, as well as in Unzer fraynt (Our friend) in Montevideo.  He was co-editor of Di vokh (The week), Folks-shtime (Voice of the people) (1939-1943), Der veg (The way) (1945-1948), and Haynt (Today) (1948-1952), and editor of Landsmanshaftn (Native-place associations) (1952-1959)—in Buenos Aires.  In book form: Kleynvarg, kinder-dertseylungen (Youngsters, children stories) (Buenos Aires, 1945), 138 pp.  He died in Buenos Aires.



Sources: Idishe tsaytung, jubilee volume (Buenos Aires, 1940), p. 388; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
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