YANKEV AYZENSHTEYN (December 18, 1884-January 14, 1946)
Born in Savran, Podolia.
From age twelve, he worked in Odessa.
From 1906 he was living in Argentina.
He was by trade a carpenter. He
began publishing in 1915, in the main with poetry. He edited the periodicals: Broyt un
frayhayt (Bread and freedom), Der frayer arbeter (The free
workingman), and Di arbeter organizatsye (The workers’ organization),
organ of the trade unions (1919)—all in Argentina. Among his books: Lider un poemen (Song
and poems) (Buenos Aires, 1935), 102 pp.
Sources:
Antologye fun der yidisher literatur in argentine (Anthology of Yiddish
literature in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1944), p. 942; P. Kats, Yidishe
literatur in argentine (Yiddish literature in Argentina) (1947); Y.
Botoshanski, Mame yidish (Mother Yiddish) (1949); Sh. Rozhanski, Dos
yidishe gedrukte vort un teater in argentine (The published Yiddish word
and theater in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1941).
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