Wednesday 3 April 2019

ALEKSANDER KLUGMAN


ALEKSANDER KLUGMAN (b. May 5, 1925)
            He was born in Lodz.  After surviving the Lodz Ghetto and Auschwitz, he came to Warsaw where he graduated from university.  He began publishing reportage pieces and stories in Dos naye lebn (The new life) in Lodz-Warsaw.  In 1957 he settled in Israel.  He wrote for: Letste nayes (Latest news), Di goldene keyt (The golden chain), Paris’s Af der vokh (By the week), and elsewhere.  He edited the album Der letster veg fun lodzher yidntum (The last road of Lodz’s Jews) (Tel Aviv, 1967), with signatures in six languages; Hebrew translation as: Darkam haaḥarona shel yehude lodzh (Tel Aviv: Sh. Kibel, 1960s).  In book form: Der kheshbn mit poyln (The balance sheet with Poland) (Tel Aviv: Dapim, 1968), 120 pp.; Di literatur fun sine (The literature of hatred) (Tel Aviv: Sifrut hapoalim, 1970), 40 pp.; Der letster kapitl (The last chapter) (Tel Aviv:  Hagola, 1970), 60 pp.  In Hebrew: Haperek haaaron, derekh seera (The last chapter, stormy way) (Tel Aviv, 1973), 199 pp.; and in Polish Powroty (Returns) (Tel Aviv, 1974), 158 pp.  He later compiled Polish-Hebrew and Hebrew-Polish dictionaries.
Ruvn Goldberg


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