TSVI (DOV) AVNER (January 6, 1889-June 12, 1970)
The adopted name of Bernard Oderberg, born in Tshenstokhov (Czestochowa), Poland, to Hassidic parents; he studied
in religious school and in the Lomzhe Yeshiva.
After his youth he joined the Labor Zionist Party, was arrested several
times by the Tsarist authorities, escaped arrest, and lived illegally in
Warsaw. He fled from Poland and arrived
in London where he was active in Labor Zionism in England and in the Jewish
Legion. From 1923 he was in the Land of
Israel where he worked in various trades and became a painter. He was one of the founders of Achdut
ha-Avodah (Union of Labor) in Jerusalem and an active member of Haganah. Most recently, he was a teacher of foreign
languages. He was the author of Di
harfe, fun an arbeter (The harp, from a laborer), poems on Zionist and
labor motifs (London, 1922), 84 pp.; Erets-yisroel refleksn un antifa[shistishe]
lider (Reflections on the Land of Israel anti-fascist songs), images and
reportage (Tel Aviv, 1948), 198 pp.; Sipurim niflaim al yehudim degulim
(Wonderful tales of prominent Jews) (Jerusalem, 1950). He also published under the name of Bernard
Oderberg.
Source:
D. Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of
the pioneers and builders of the yishuv) (Tel Aviv, 1947), vol. 1, pp. 2636-37.
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