Sunday, 10 March 2019

YUDL KORMAN


YUDL KORMAN (May 14, 1905-July 23, 1979)
            A journalist whose original name was Barshtshevski, he was born in Volomin (Wołomin), Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school and yeshiva.  In 1926 he emigrated to Paris.  He was active in the leftist labor movement and a resistance fighter during the Nazi occupation of France.  He survived Auschwitz, left for Poland, and in 1968 again came to France.  He published articles in Unzer prese (Our press) and Yisroel shtime (Israel’s voice), and he was co-editor of Folks-shtime (Voice of the people) (1954-1968) and Unzer shtime (Our voice) in Paris.  In book form: Mir bashuldikn (We accuse) (Warsaw: Yidish bukh, 1963), 47 pp.; Mir vorenen (We admonish) (Warsaw: Yidish bukh, 1965), 100 pp.  Among his pen names: Y. Hindes, A. Kleynman, and Y. Grin.  He died in Paris.
Dr. Noyekh Gris


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