ISH-LEVI (LEYBL HOROVITS) (1905-1942)
Born in Częstochowa, into a wealthy Hassidic family. He was businessman. He was one of the founders of the Bes-Yankev
periodical in Lodz, in which he published literary essays, poems, and
translations. He published another
Orthodox literary journal as well as in Hebrew, Diglenu (Our
banner). After the establishment of the
first Nazi ghetto in Lodz, he escaped to his parents’ in Częstochowa. On Simchat Torah in 1942, he and his entire
family were sent to the Treblinka death camp.
Sources: Antologye fun religyeze lider un dertseylungen
(Anthology of religious poems and stories) (New York, 1955), pp. 164-67.
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