YUDES KOLMAN (KALMAN)

YUDES KOLMAN (KALMAN) (December 25, 1904-February 25, 1982)

            He was born in Trashtsyanets (Trostyanets), Galicia.  He took private middle school courses, and in 1924 he arrived illegally in the land of Israel.  He spent time in prison for his Communist work.  From 1937 he was living in France.  He escaped from a internment camp in Vittel.  He then lived in Paris.  He wrote literary criticism for Paris’s Naye prese (New press) from 1938 and Parizer tsaytshrift (Parisian periodical).  In book form: Fani kaptshuk-deverp, der lebns-veg fun der antifashistisher kemferin (Fanny Kapciuch-Dewerpe, the life path of an anti-fascist fighter) (Paris: Naye prese [Israel]), 32 pp.  He died in Berdichev.

Dr. Noyekh Gris