Thursday 7 February 2019

YISROEL KOLKER


YISROEL KOLKER (b. May 24, 1909)
            He was born in the town of Soroke (Soroki), Bessarabia, and was raised in Yedinets (Edineţ), Bessarabia.  He studied there in religious elementary school and high school.  He spent two years at the Czernowitz Hebrew Pedagogical Seminary.  During WWII he served in the Red Army.  In 1908 he moved to Israel.  He debuted in print with a story in Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Tel Aviv.  In book form: Getseylte teg (A few days) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1985), 208 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 551.


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