Thursday, 7 February 2019

YITSKHOK KOLER (IRVING KOLLER)


YITSKHOK KOLER (IRVING KOLLER) (b. May 16, 1908)
            He was born in Rudnik, Galicia.  He came to the United States in 1922.  He graduated from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and from the University of California.  He wrote on Jewish folklore and other matters in Kheshbn (Accounting) in Los Angeles, Gedenkbukh galitsye (Memory volume for Galicia) (Buenos Aires, 1964), and Mexico City’s Der veg (The way) in which he had a weekly column.  In Hebrew he published Sefer ester vezikato litekufat ezra unehemya (The Book of Esther and its relationship to the epoch of Ezra and Neemiah) (Los Angeles, 1952), 112 pp.

Source: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Meravya, 1967).
Yekhezkl Lifshits


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