DOVID TEOMIM (d. January 1943)
He
attended religious elementary schools and yeshivas. At age sixteen he debuted in print with a
story drawn from Hassidic life. He wrote
for various newspapers. In Haynt (Today) in Warsaw, he published
several stories under the pen name “Der Khosid.” In Yoyvl-bukh
fun haynt (Jubilee volume from Haynt)
for the years 1908-1938, there appeared a fragment of his long story Nekome (Revenge). He was confined in the Warsaw Ghetto and died
there in January 1943.
Sources: Ber Mark, Umgekumene shrayber fun di getos un
lagern (Murdered writers from the ghettos and camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 68;
Khayim Finkelshteyn, Haynt, a tsaytung
bay yidn, 1908-1939 (Haynt
[Today], a newspaper for Jews, 1908-1939) (Tel Aviv, 1978), pp. 202-3.
Bew\rl Cohen
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