Monday 29 April 2019

KHAYIM RABIN


KHAYIM RABIN (b. January 15, 1911)
            He was born in Lanovits (Lanivtsi), Volhynia.  He studied in public school and yeshiva.  He graduated from the Poznanski’s Teachers’ Seminary in Warsaw.  From 1935 he was living in the land of Israel.  He published many books in Hebrew—such as Hayabeshet haavuda (The lost continent), six children’s books, among other items.  In Yiddish he debuted at age sixteen in Kremenitser shtime (Voice of Kremenits), and he also wrote for Rovner tsaytung (Rovno newspaper) and Haynt (Today) in Warsaw.  He edited a series of remembrance volumes for: Voronove, Vishograd (Visegrad), Vishnevits (Vishnevets), Langovits, Shumsk, and elsewhere—all in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Ruvn Goldberg

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 494.


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