Tuesday, 5 February 2019

TSEMEKH-DOVID KOLTHON


TSEMEKH-DOVID KOLTHON
            He was born in Bila Tserkva, Kiev Province.  He authored a booklet entitled Di groyse krom mit groyse vehtogin (The big store with big suffering) (Berdichev, 1898), 48 pp.  He complains that: “The bigger the store, / the more the merchant suffers! / The promissory notes like a knife / always cut into his heart!”  Of meagre literary value, but distinctive vis-à-vis shopkeeper psychology.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.
Berl Cohen


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