YOYSEF KULTSHIK (b. May 13, 1898)
He was
born Yoysef Kurlyandski in Shat (Šėta), Lithuania. He studied in yeshivas and in a high
school. He debuted in print in Tsayt (Times) in Kovno (1920) with a
monologue entitled “Der korbn” (The victim), which was staged several times. From 1921 he was a contributor to: the Labor
Zionist Arbeter-tsaytung (Workers’
newspaper) (using the pen names Ben Menakhem and Latski); Vispe (Islet); Khvalyes (Waves),
an anthology edited by Kultshik; the daily newspaper Nayes (News) in Kovno; the daily Di tsayt (The times) in Shavel (Šiauliai);
and Di idishe velt (The Jewish world)
in Kovno-Berlin. He penned journalistic
articles (under the pen name Bal-Khloymes) and stories. In 1924 he moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, and
contributed to American Jewish and Canadian Jewish serials: Yung-kuznye (Young smithy), Baginen (Dawn), Yugnt (Youth), and Der kamf
(The struggle), among others.
Berl Cohen
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