ITSHE-YITSKHOK RAFAEL (b. April 4, 1895)
He was a
poet, born in Slonim, Byelorussia. He
studied in Vilna to be a dentist. In
1925 he emigrated to Montreal, Canada, and from there to the United
States. From 1965 he was living in Rehovot,
Israel. He published poetry and drawings
in: Ḥefa (Haifa) and Undzer shrift (Our writing) in Haifa. His work in the plastic arts were shown at
various exhibitions. In book form: Fun friling tsu friling (From spring to
spring), poetry (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1963), 210 pp.; Tseykhenungen (Drawings), “limited edition” (Israel, 1982), 12 pp.;
a prospectus of Tseykhenungen
appeared in Tel Aviv (1983). He was last
writing and painting under the name Rafael.
Ruvn Goldberg
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 503-4.]
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