MOTL KOZLOVSKI

MOTL KOZLOVSKI (1910-1944?)

            He was born in Pshiskhe (Przysucha), Poland.  He had a traditional education.  He worked as a tailor.  He debuted in print with a poem in Afn shteynernem bruk (On cobblestone pavement) in Lodz.  His poems also appeared in: Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves), Folkstsaytung (people’s newspaper), Lodz’s Folksblat (People’s newspaper), Os (Letter), Inzl (Island) edited by Z. Bagin, Bleter (Sheets), and Kvaln (Springs), among others.  His works include: Af heymishe shlyakhn (At familiar battles) (Lodz: Os, 1938), 48 pp.  He was deported from the Lodz ghetto.  He died in Auschwitz.

Sources: Foroys (Warsaw) (February 4, 1938); B. Heler, Dos lid iz geblibn in poyln, umgekumene beys der hitlerisher okupatsye, antologye (The poem remains, poetry of Jewish poets in Poland murdered during the Hitlerian occupation, an anthology) (Warsaw, 1951); Y. Goldkorn, Lodzher portretn, umgekumene yidishe shrayber un tipn (Portraits of Lodz. Murdered Yiddish writers and types) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1963), pp. 162-67; Khayim Leyb Fuks, Lodzh shel mayle, dos yidishe gaystiḳe un derhoybene lodzh, 100 yor yidishe un oykh hebreishe literatur un kultur in lodzh un in di arumiḳe shtet un shtetlekh (Lodz on high, the Jewish spiritual and elevated Lodz, 100 years of Yiddish and also Hebrew literature and culture in Lodz and in the surrounding cities and towns) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1972), p. 274; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).

Yekhezkl Lifshits