Friday 30 May 2014

YOYSEF-KHAYIM AYZNBERG

YOYSEF-KHAYIM AYZNBERG (1899-1943)
Born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland, and was a contributor to Shedletser vokhnblat (Shedlets weekly press) which began publication in 1922.  He was also one of the writers and contributors to the journal Vortslen (Roots) which commenced publication in January 1927.  He was the author of a dramatic poem: Di letste teg fun dovid (The last days of David) (Shedlets, 1937), 64 pp.  He was murdered in the Shedlets ghetto.

Sources: M. D. Shteyn, in Bafrayung (Warsaw) (February 18, 1938); Y. Kaspi, in Yivo-bleter 36 (1952).


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