ARYE LEON KUBOVI (ARYEH L. KUBOVY) (November 2, 1896-May
16, 1966)
He was
born in Kurshan (Kuršėnai), Lithuania, with the surname Kubovitski. In his youth he came to Belgium where he
received his doctoral degree from the University of Brussels. He served as Israeli ambassador to Poland,
Czechoslovakia, and Argentina, and he was later director of Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem. From 1931 he was editor of Folk un arbet (People and labor) in
Brussels, a biweekly newspaper, later a monthly, put out by the Labor Zionists
and Zionist Youth in Belgium. He also
wrote articles for Dos naye vort (The
new word), Dos vort (The word), and Kiem (Existence) in Paris, and from time
for time in the Argentinian Yiddish press.
In book form: Yidishe politik 1934
(Jewish politics 1934) (Brussels: Jewish Socialist Party, 1935), 23 pp.; Vortslen un fliglen, redes un referatn fun a yisroel ambasador 1953-1958
(Roots and wings, speeches and lectures by an ambassador of Israel 1953-1958) (Buenos
Aires: Kiem, 1958), 209 pp. He
died in Jerusalem.
Sources: D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav
(Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 5 (Tel Aviv,
1952); N. Goren, ed., Yahadut lita
(Jews of Lithuania), vol. 3 (Tel Aviv, 1967).
Ruvn Goldberg
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