YISROEL RUBIN (b. 1900)
He was
the author of stories, born in Govertshev (Gowarczów),
Poland. He descended from a poor
family. He moved with his parents to
Lodz. He attended religious elementary
school, and he studied foreign languages on his own. He was writing poetry at age fourteen for the
Lodz Yiddish press, later mainly novellas and sketches. He also published in Haynt (Today) in Warsaw. In
book form (under the pen name Y. Rozental): Di
klole fun blut, a roman fun yidishn lebn fun der letster tsayt (The curse
of blood, a novel of Jewish life in recent times) (Warsaw: L. Goldfarb, 1926),
206 pp.
Berl Cohen
a more complete translation (i'd suggest doublechecking other entries transcribed by berl cohen):
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