Thursday, 28 February 2019

LEYB KOPELOVITSH (KOPELEVICIUS)


LEYB KOPELOVITSH (KOPELEVICIUS) (d. 1941)
            He was born in Kalvarye (Kalvarija), Lithuania.  He was one of the main contributors to the daily Folksblat (People’s newspaper) in Kovno (1`930-1940).  He wrote numerous pieces about matters of international politics.  At the time of the German invasion of Lithuania, he fled from Kovno and was killed along the road.  In book form: Rabindranat tagor, lebn, shafn un gezelshaftlekhe ideologye (Rabindranath Tagore, life, works, and social ideology) (Kovno, 1933), 47 pp.
Berl Cohen

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 476.]


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