Monday, 16 June 2014

YOYSEF (YOSEF, JOSEF) ALBIRT

YOYSEF (YOSEF, JOSEF) ALBIRT (b. 1904)

Born in Vilna, later lived in Lide (Lida).  He worked there as the editor of a Yiddish weekly.  During WWII and thereafter, he was in Tashkent.  Author of: Bandazhn proletarishe (Proletarian bandages) (Lida, 1935); Gerangl-gezangen (Songs of struggle) (Vilna, 1936), 23 pp.; Masholim (Fables) (Brestetshko, 1939), 32 pp.; and other works.  In 1942 he published a book of poetry in Tashkent, Af milkhome temes (On war themes), which was translated into Russian as Krasnie poezda (Red convoy).  His subsequent career remains unknown.

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