DOVID KARPINOVITSH (1910-November 4, 1972)
He was a
journalist, born in Vilna, the son of Moyshe and the brother of Avrom, Yankl,
and Meylekh Karpinovitsh. He attended
Rameyle’s yeshiva and a Jewish musical institute. In 1936 he was sentenced to twelve years in
prison for Communist activities. In 1939
he fled to Soviet Russia, fought during WWII as a Soviet and a Polish
officer. After the war he was a member
of the editorial board of Folks-shtime
(Voice of the people) in Warsaw and from 1957 of Letste nayes (Latest news) in Tel Aviv, Israel. His books include: Adolf aykhman der bukhhalter fun toyt (Adolf Eichmann, the
bookkeeper of death), with his brother under the pen name Br[other] Levitan (Tel
Aviv, 1959), 62 pp., second enlarged edition under the title Adolf aykhman in di hent fun folk vos er hot
gevolt farnikhtn (Adolf Eichmann in the hands of the people he wanted to
destroy) (Tel Aviv, 1960), 129 pp. With
this same brother (using the same pen name), he translated into Yiddish: Leon
Uris, Eksodus (Exodus) (Tel Aviv,
1961), 1263 pp.; with his brother Avrom, he translated a portion of Sefer hagevura (The book of heroism)
(Tel Aviv, 1967/1968), pp. 245-474; and by himself, Siaḥ loḥamim (Dialogue of fighters
[usually translated into English as “The seventh day”] (Tel Aviv, 1969), 315
pp. He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: Sefer
hashana shel haitonim (Newspaper yearbook) (Tel Aviv, 1971-1973), pp.
350-51; M. Tsanin, in Letste nayes
(Tel Aviv, November 5, 1972; December 3, 1972).
Ruvn Goldberg
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