ITSIK KAPITANOV (May 11, 1911-November 19, 1978)
He was
born in Kishinev. He spent WWII in the
Soviet Union. He was arrested by the
Soviet authorities for Zionist activities and deported for ten years to camps
in Siberia. In 1950 he was freed and from
1967 he was living in Israel. In the
1930s he published poetry, sketches, and stories about the craftsmen’s backstreets
where he grew up for the Romanian Yiddish press and later in Soviet
Russia. In 1939 he edited (with S.
Bronshteyn) a literary collection entitled Eyns
(One) in Bucharest. He published poetry
and memoirs in Letste nayes (Latest
news) and Yisroel shtime (Voice of
Israel). In book form: In sibirer farshikung (In Siberian
exile) (Tel Aviv: Leivivk Publ., 1983), 149 pp.
He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: Natan Mark, Yidish-literatur
in rumenye fun ir onheyb biz 1968 (Yiddish literature in Romania from its
beginning until 1968) (Haifa: Halevanon, 1971), p. 121; Volf Tambur, Yidish-prese in rumenye (The Yiddish press in Romania) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1977),
see index; M. Sektsyer, in Letste nayes
(Tel Aviv) (December 1, 1978).
Ruvn Goldberg
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 475-76.]
No comments:
Post a Comment