Friday 12 April 2019

LOUIS KESTOR


LOUIS KESTOR (b. May 6, 1894)
            He was born Kh. L. Kateshtor in Yampol-Podolsk.  From 1920 he was living in the United States.  He wrote stories and sketches in: Familyen zhurnal (Family journal) in New York, Idisher kuryer (Jewish courier) in Chicago, and Unzer folks fraynd (Our people’s friend), but mostly in Philadelphia’s Idishe velt (Jewish world).  Due to illness he ceased writing.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 489.


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