LIPMAN KUNSHTAT (b. July 22, 1901).
He was
born in Radevits (Rădăuţi), Bukovina.
His father was a rabbi and author of religious texts. He received a stringent religious
education. After WWI he graduated from
high school in Czernowitz. In 1941 he
was deported to Transnistria and later to a concentration camp at Zhurin
(Zurin) in the district of Sharhorod. In
the camps he kept a diary which he kept to himself. In 1945 he returned to Radevits and in 1961
settled in Israel; in 1971 he moved to New York. He began journalistic work in 1923 in German
and later also in Romanian newspapers.
He wrote for Tshernovitser bleter
(Czernowitz pages), Oyfgang (Arise)
in Sighet, Romania, and from time to time Di
goldene keyt (The golden chain) in Tel Aviv, among others. From Yiddish to Hebrew, he translated: Pirke zikhronot min hatofat hanatsi (Chapters
of memoirs from the Nazi inferno) by Pinḥas-Menaḥem Fayvlovitsh (Haifa,
1969), 163 pp. His pen names: Lior
Kunshtat, Lior Bar-Ḥana,
and L. K.
Source: E. Vizel (Elie Wiesel), in Forverts (New York) (February 14, 1971).
Berl Cohen
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