PINKHES-DOVID SHPRINBERG[1]
(August 27, 1886-July 29, 1974)
He was a
journalist, born in Zguritse (Zgurița),
Bessarabia. His Hispanicized first name
was Pedro. He was the elder brother of
Moyshe Shprinberg. He graduated from a
Russian municipal school. In 1903 he
moved with his parents to Argentina. For
three years he lived in Paraguay, from 1924 in Rosario, Argentina, and from
1933 in Montevideo. He was a member of
the international Theosophical Society, and he was active on behalf of
Zionism. He wrote a great deal in
Spanish. In Yiddish he published (with
Yitskhok Edelshteyn) Leben un frayhayt (Life and freedom) in Buenos
Aires (1908, three issues) and (with his brother Moyshe) Shtrahlen (Beams) (1913). In
1933 he edited Urugvayer tog (Uruguay
day) in Montevideo. His pen names
included: A Troymer, R’ Dovidl, and Mefisto.
He died in Montevideo.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Shmuel Rozhanski, Gezamlte shriftn (Collected writings) (Buenos Aires, 1941), p. 81;
Pinye Katz, Geklibene shriftn (Collected
writings), vol. 5 (Buenos Aires, 1946), pp. 187-97; Yitskhok Vaynshenker, Boyers
un mitboyers fun yidishn yishev in urugvay (Founders and builders of the Jewish community in
Uruguay) (Montevideo: Zrie, 1957).
Yoysef Horn
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