ARN-LEYZER KARTUZINSKI (KARTUSHINSKI) (ca. 1853-April 22,
1922)
He was
born in Novidvor (Nowy Dwor), near Warsaw.
His original surname was Epshteyn, which he changed due to military
service. He attended yeshivas. He settled in Warsaw and took up all sorts of
business concerns. He compiled calendars
for the Warsaw booksellers (Fayvl Rozen, A. Kahane, and others) and published
them himself as: Gastfrayndlikher luekh
trn”d (Hospitable calendar for 1893/1894) and Der zeltner eviger vunderbarer kalendar, luaḥ otsar haḥokhma veosher olamim, mishenat trn”ḥ
ad sof haolam… (The exquisite, eternal, wonderful calendar, a calendar the
treasury of wisdom and the riches of worlds, from the year 1897/1898 until the
end of the world…) (Warsaw, 1893/1894).
He also published a letter-writing manual without a precise title
(Warsaw, 1888/1889). He was the author
or translator of storybooks, such as: Der
ferlorener foter (The lost father) (Warsaw, 1882); and Der aristokratisher merder (The aristocratic murder) (Warsaw, 1892). He adapted a book, Rusish-yidisher adres-shrayber (Russian-Yiddish address writer)
(Warsaw, 1900). Under the pen mane Al”k,
Di gliklikhe familye oder tsvey kaptsonim
geyen tantsin (The happy family, or two paupers go dancing), a novel in two
parts (Warsaw, 1881/1882). He died in
Warsaw.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Y. Shatski, Geshikhte
fun yidn in varshe (History of Jews in Warsaw), vol. 3 (New York, 1953), p.
271.
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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