YEKHIEL SHEYNTUKH (b. March 28, 1941)
He was
born in Buenos Aires. He attended religious
elementary school and graduated from high school and a teachers’ seminary. In 1960 he moved to Israel. His doctoral dissertation (1978) at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem concerned Yiddish and Hebrew literature under Nazi rule
in Eastern Europe. He debuted in print
in 1960 in Yunger dor (Young
generation) VIII (in Buenos Aires). He
contributed work on Yiddish literary and cultural history to: Di goldene keyt (The golden chain), Bay zikh (On one’s own), Folk un tsien (People and Zion), Folk, velt un medine (People, world, and
state), Almanakh fun yidishe shrayber in
yerusholaim (Almanac of Yiddish writers in Jerusalem), and Yugntruf (Call to youth) (New York). He also writes in Hebrew—for Hasifrut (Literature), Mibifnim (From within), and
elsewhere. A book of his in Hebrew: Yitsḥak katsenelson, ketavim shenitslu migeto
varsha umimaḥane viṭel (Yitskhok Katsenelson, writings that survived the
Warsaw Ghetto and the Vittel Concentration Camp) (Jerusalem, 1990), 394 pp.
Berl Cohen
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