MOYSHE KORMAN

MOYSHE KORMAN (February 3, 1884-April 15, 1928)

            He was a poet and storyteller, born in Petrikov (Piotrków), Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school and a Russian public school.  He was active in the Zionist socialist party.  In 1911 he settled in Paterson, where he took up his trade of weaving.  From 1912 he was publishing poems and stories in: Kundes (Prankster), Idishe arbeter velt (World of Jewish labor), Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Idisher kemfer (Jewish fighter), Dos idishe folk (The Jewish people), Tsukunft (Future) (only in 1919), Hamer (Hammer), Di feder (The pen), and Frayhayt (Freedom), among others.  In book form: In der shtil, dertseylungen un bilder (Quietly, stories and images) (New York: Literarisher farlag, 1924), 160 pp.; Tsvishn zun un regn, lider un poemen (Between sun and rain, poetry) (Paterson, 1928), 93 pp.  He died in Paterson, New Jersey.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Nakhmen Mayzil, Amerike in yidishn vort (America in the Yiddish word) (New York, 1955), p. 391 (which gives his birthdate as 1886); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).

Yekhezkl Lifshits