YEKHEZKL SHOYKHET (JESEKIEL SCHOIJET)

YEKHEZKL SHOYKHET (JESEKIEL SCHOIJET) (b. May 20, 1904)

            He was born Kryve Ozero, Podolia.  In 1910 he moved with his family to Argentina.  He graduated from a Spanish school and a Jewish school run by YIKO (Jewish Cultural Organization).  For thirty years he lived in the colony of Narcis Leven.  From 1929 he was writing for Di prese (The press), mainly on agrarian issues (under the pen name A. Feldman).  He placed a major piece of work in Argentiner yivo-shriftn (Argentinian YIVO writings) 8.  In book form: Bletlekh tsu der geshikhte fun narsis leven (Pages from the history of Narcis Leven) (Buenos Aires: YIVO division in Argentina, 1953), 120 pp.  A considerably expanded version appeared in Spanish.

Source: H. L. Zhitnitski, in Di pfese (Buenos Aires) (October 2, 1964).

Berl Cohen