KHAYIM KLEYMAN (October 1897-summer 1963)
He was
born in Tiraspol, Kherson Province. He
studied in religious elementary school, later graduating from a seven-class
high school in Bender (Bendery). He
worked as a teacher in Kaushan (Căușeni), Bessarabia, and later
he moved to Bucharest. He emigrated to
Brazil after WWII. He contributed to the
Marxist Unzer vort (Our word) and Unzer veg (Our way) (Bucharest,
1926-1927). He wrote feature pieces and political
articles. In New York’s Frayhayt (Freedom), he placed
correspondence pieces from Romania under the pen name Aleks Dnestrov. In book form: Stratosfere grotesk-shpil in eyn akt (Stratospheric grotesque play
in one act) (Bucharest: Sholem-aleykhem, 1935), 24 pp.; Tsvishn prut un dnyester, reportazhn (Between the Prut and the Dniester
[Rivers], reportage pieces) (Bucharest: Sholem-aleykhem, 1936), 39 pp.; Aleksander pushkin, komentarn (Alexander
Pushkin, commentary) (Bucharest: Sholem-aleykhem, 1937), 80 pp.; Dos vigele funem yidishn teater (The
cradle of Yiddish theater) (Kishinev: Yidish, 1939), 72 pp. He edited a short periodical in Rio de
Janeiro (3 issues, 1961). He translated
a series of plays for the artist Lydia Potocki: Leonid Andreyev, Yekaterina inanovna (Ekaterina
Ivanovna); Aleksander Ostrovsky, Der
shturem (The thunderstorm [original: Groza]);
Vynnychenko, Der lign (The lie [original:
Brekhnia]) and Di shvartse pantera (The black panther [original: Chorna pantera]); Victorien Sardou, Madam san zhan (Madame
Sans Gêne); Trilby; and Henri Bataille,
Di nakete (The naked woman [original La Femme nue]); among others. His pen names include: Khes Kuf, Kh. K., and
Kh. Davidov. He died in
Rio de Janeiro.[1]
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Keshenev:
200 yor yidish lebn in der hoyptshtot fun besarabye (Kishinev: 200 years of
Jewish life in the capital city of Bessarabia) (Buenos Aires, 1950), p. 276;
Shloyme Bikl, Rumenye (Romania)
(Buenos Aires, 1961), p. 400; M. V. Bernshteyn, in Der veker (New York) (January 1, 1963); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New
York).
Yekhezkl Lifshits
[1] According to Shloyme Bikl, Rumenye (Romania) (Buenos Aires, 1961), p. 400, he died in Kamenets-Podolsk,
Ukraine.
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