LEYZER (ELIEZER) KALIR (January 1893-April 19, 1968)
He was a poet and memoirist, born in
Amstibove (Pol. Mścibów;
Bel. Mstsibova), Grodno Province. He received both a traditional and a secular education. He contributed work to Volkovisker lebn (Wołkowysk life). He moved to Israel in 1934. His works include: Shtil geveyn, a tsikl lider (Quiet lament, a cycle of poems)[1]
(Tel Aviv, 1955/1956), 48 pp.—for his son who died in the battle for Jerusalem
in 1948—earlier in Hebrew as Mikerev
(From within) (Tel Aviv, 1950), 46 pp.; Blumen
fun yisroel (Flowers of Israel), novel and literary criticism (Tel Aviv,
1962), 220 pp. He published several
other books in Hebrew. He died in
Petaḥ Tikva, Israel.
Sources:
Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit
(Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Merḥavya, 1967); Meylekh Ravitsh, Mayn leksikon (My lexicon), vol. 3 (Montreal, 1958); A. Shamri, Ṿortslen, antologye fun yidish-shafn in yisroel,
poezye un proze (Roots, anthology of Yiddish writing in Israel, poetry and
prose) (Tel Aviv, 1966), p. 139; M. Yofe, Erets-yisroel
in der yidisher literatur (Israel in Yiddish literature) (Tel Aviv: Perets
Publ., 1961); Letste nayes (Tel Aviv)
(May 19, 1968); Y. Ts. Shargel, Fun
onheyb on (From the beginning) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel bukh, 1977), pp. 79-81.
Yekhezkl Lifshits
[1] Translator’s
note. In English: Silent Tears, Poems (free translation from Yiddish by Jeannette E.
Shoham) (Tel Aviv, 1961), 35 pp.
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