KHAYIM KOLESNIK

KHAYIM KOLESNIK (1904-1982)

            He was born in Makhnovke (Makhnivka), Ukraine.  In 1936 he graduated from the literature and linguistics division of Moscow Pedagogical Institute.  He was a teacher in Jewish middle schools in the Zhitomir region (1929-1932), Slavuta (1936-1941), and from 1946 in Berdichev where he settled.  From 1927 he published poems in: Royte velt (Red world), Farmest (Competition), Emes (Truth), Shtern (Star) in Kharkov, Yunge gvardye (Young guard), Odeser arbeter (Odessa worker), and Sovetish heymland (Soviet homeland), among others.  He died in Berdichev.

Source: Sovetish heymland (Moscow) 8 (1983).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 472-73.