G. KENIG

G. KENIG (October 19, 1909-February 14, 1972)

            The pseudonym of Meylekh Gromb, he was a journalist, born in Warsaw.  He attended religious primary school.  He completed high school as an external student.  Due to political persecution, he emigrated to Paris.  Over the years 1939-1945, he was held in German captivity.  His first published work appeared in Filologishe shriftn (Philological writings) (Vilna: YIVO, 1929).  He served as editor (1934-1939) of the Parisian Communist daily newspaper Naye prese (New press)—he was editor-in-chief, 1945-1972.  He published in this newspaper long works of literary criticism and reportage: “4 khadoshim in Palestine” (Four months in Palestine) (March-July 1947); “Rayze-ayndrukn fun rumenye” (Travel impressions from Romania) (September-October 1956); “Lenin in pariz” (Lenin in Paris) (March-April 1970); and in Parizer tsaytshrift (Parisian periodical) of 1962, “Froym kaganovski” (Froym Kaganovski).  He served as co-editor of In kamf far frayhayt (In the fight for freedom) (Paris: Oyfsnay, 1948); Yizker-bukh tsum ondenk fun 14 umgekumene parizer yidishe shrayber (Remembrance volume to the memory of fourteen murdered Parisian Yiddish writers), with T. Spero (Paris: Oyfsnay, 1946).  In book form: Undzere bafrayer, fartseykhenungen fun a geṿezenem ḳrigs-gefangenem (Our liberators, notes of a former prisoner of war) (Paris: Oyfsnay, 1952), 142 pp.  Further pen names: Nivar and Ringvar.  He died in Paris.

Source: Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).

Dr Noyekh Gris