MORTKHE-LEYB KAPLAN

MORTKHE-LEYB KAPLAN (d. 1941?)

            He served as co-editor of the weekly Volkovisker lebn (Wołkowysk life) (1926-1939).  Several of his poems were published in Der shtrahl (The beam [of light]) and Leben un visenshaft (Life and science) 11 (1910).  He kept a diary in the Volkovisk (Wołkowysk) ghetto, which was lost.  He died in the Wołkowysk ghetto.

Source: Volkovisker yizker-bukh (Wołkowysk remembrance volume), vol. 1 (New York, 1949) pp. 507-12.

Berl Cohen