Y. ALEF

Y. ALEF

Using this name, a highly promising writer published stories in Shtern (Stars) in Minsk in 1919.  Biographical details are unknown.

Sources: B. Orshanski, Di yidishe literatur in vaysrusland nokh der revolutsye (Yiddish literature in Byelorussia after the revolution) (Moscow, 1931), pp. 165-68; B. Orshanski, “Di yidishe poezye in vaysrusland nokh der revolutsye” (Yiddish poetry in Byelorussia after the revolution), Tsaytshrift (Minsk, 1931), vol. 5.