DOVID
ANIN (January 20, 1913-May 1, 1979)
Adopted name of Dovid Azarkh, he was born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia, son of Shmaryahu. From 1937, he was in Paris, and from 1952 in
New York. He was a contributor and a
member of the editorial board of the Parisian Bundist daily newspaper, Undzer
shtime (Our voice), and he published in Undzer tsayt (Our times), Gerekhtikeyt
(Justice), and Veker (Alarm)—all in New York. He was also a contributor to Russian
publications. Among his pseudonyms: D.
Serzh, D. A., A. David, D. Mirski, and Observator. He died in Israel.Thursday 31 July 2014
YUDL ANILOVITSH
YUDL
ANILOVITSH (d. 1943)
The place and date of his birth are unknown. He graduated from the science high school in
Vilna. He was a manager of the press
department and bibliographic headquarters of YIVO in Vilna. Among his important work: “Di yidishe
bikher-produktsye in tsofn-amerike” (The production of Yiddish books in North
America), Yivo-bleter (Pages from YIVO) 4-5 (1932-1933); “Yidishe
lernbikher in pedagogye” (Yiddish textbooks in pedagogy), Yivo-bleter 7
(1934); “Materyaln tsu a bibliografye fun yankev leshtshinski” (Materials for a
bibliography of Yankev Leshtshinski), Yivo-bleter 10 (1936);
“Spinoza-bibliografye” (Spinoza bibliography), in Spinoza-bukh (Spinoza
volume) (New York, 1932), ed. Dr. Y. Shatski; a bibliography of the work of
Nokhum Shtif, Yivo-bleter (1933); “Yidishe lernbikher in pedagogye,
1934-1939” (Yiddish textbooks in pedagogy, 1934-1939), with Y. Yafe, in Shriftn
far psikhologye un pedagogik (Writings on psychology and pedagogy),
vol. 1 (Vilna, YIVO, 1933), pp. 465-528; “5 yor yidishe prese, 1926-1930,
statistishe sakhaklen” (Five years of the Yiddish press, 1926-1930, statistical
data), Yivo-bleter 2 (1931). He
also contributed to Bikhervelt (World of books) (Warsaw, 1928).
Sources:
Sh. Katsherginski, Khurbm vilne (Holocaust in Vilna) (New York, 1947); Lerer
yizker-bukh (Teachers’ memory book) (New York, 1954), p. 19; obituary in Yivo-bleter
26, p. 5.
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Y. ANTOKOLETS
Y[ITSKHOK] ANTOKOLETS (d. August 1944)
Pen name: Yan. He was
born in Vilna, practiced medicine, and was a leader of the Bund and its correspondent
for its Warsaw organ, Folks-tsaytung (People’s newspaper). He wrote satirical poems in the ghetto and
gave lectures on popular health. He was
sent to Estonia together with a group of other Jews, and he escaped into the
woods. In August 1944 he was murdered by
the Germans.
Sources:
Dr. M. Dvorzhetski (Mark Dvorzetsky), Yerusholayim delite in kamf un umkum
(The Jerusalem of Lithuania in struggle and death) (Paris, 1948), pp. 214, 215,
220; Sh. Katsherginski, Khurbm vilne (Holocaust in Vilna) (New York,
1947).
M. ANGILOVITSH
M.
ANGILOVITSH
He compiled and edited Jewish folklore materials. He published his important folklore
collections from 1908 through 1913 in Minsk in Tsaytshrift (Periodical)
2.3 (1928), pp. 787-97.
KHATSKL ANAKHOVITSH
KHATSKL
ANAKHOVITSH
Born in Sokolke (Sokółka),
Poland. He was for many years an active member
of the local Sholem Aleykhem Library. He
worked as a clerk in the finance department of city hall. He was the former clerk in the office of
medical insurance. He was also an editor
of Veker (Alarm) in Byalistok.
Sources:
Byalistoker leksikon (Byalistok handbook) (1935); Pinkes fun yidishe
druker in poyln (Records of Jewish publishers in Poland) (Warsaw, 1949), p.
45.
AVROM-MEYER AMSTERDAM
AVROM-MEYER
AMSTERDAM (1871/1872-July 29, 1899)
Born in Vitebsk, Russia to poor parents (his father was a
teacher in an elementary religious school).
He studied in religious elementary school and later, until age sixteen,
in an artisanal school in Moscow.
Banished from Moscow, he returned to Vitebsk in early 1890. At an early age he was active in community
life and in the Moscow student group “Bnei-tsiyon” (Children of Zion), under
the influence of his brother-in-law, Ruvn Braynin. At that time, he was a close friend of Dovid
Pinski and one of the dreamers of Zion in the Hebrew language, but later he
parted from Zionist ideology and dedicated himself to spreading education among
the people. He founded youth clubs in
Vitebsk which made him beloved among young people, chiefly among yeshiva
boys. An extraordinary, arousing orator,
he became with the course of time one of the pioneers of the Jewish labor
movement in Vitebsk, later becoming active as well in Mohilev (Mogilev) where
he served in the military (1894-1895).
He went to Vilna in 1896 and became a member of the “Zhargonishe
komitet” (Yiddish committee). So as to
spread radical Yiddish writings, he became a peddler. Der yidisher arbayter (The Jewish
laborer) in August 1899 wrote of him that he had become a peddler who had
studied the Jewish people well and that they felt attached to him with a powerful
love. He was “a man of pure personality,
an orator, a superb cultural propagandist, and a man drawn to artistic endeavors
and who also made his own efforts at writing fiction” (A. M.
Ginzburg-Naumov). Unfortunately, the
work referred to here was lost. He was
arrested on June 27, 1897 and spent two years in various jails. When he was freed, he wrote Briv tsu di
arbayter (Letter to laborers) as well as a speech for May Day. He was also interested in issues in Jewish
history, and on his own collected materials for a Jewish history with a
materialistic interpretation. He was an
enthusiastic adherent of Yiddish and believed that his people would succeed in
building their own literature in their own vernacular language. He drowned in the Dnieper River in Shklov (Škłoŭ). His
tragic death was described by Zalman Shneur in his Shklover yidn (Jews
of Shklov) in a chapter entitled “Der dertrunkener” (The drowned).
Khayim-Leyb Fuks
Sources: Der yidisher arbayter 2.3 (February 1897), 4.5
(November 1897), 7 (August 1899); A. Litvak, Vos geven (What was)
(Vilna, 1925); A. Tsher (Tsherikover), Historishe shriftn fun yivo (Historical
writings from YIVO) (Vilna-Paris, 1939); Sh. Levin, Untererdishe kemfer
(Underground fighters) (New York, 1946); Algemayne entsiklopedye
(General encyclopedia), vol. 3, p. 315; Ruvn Braynin, Fun mayn lebns-bukh
(From my book of life) (New York, 1946), p. 272; Doyres bundistn
(Generations of Bundists), vol. 1 (ed. Y. Sh. Herts) (New York, 1956).
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HINDE AMKHANITSKI
HINDE AMKHANITSKI
Author of Der origineler idisher familyen kokh-bukh (The
original Jewish family cookbook), “the original work of a Jewish woman” (New
York, 192?), 72 pp.
AVROM AMBER-STRUSH
AVROM AMBER-STRUSH (d. March 1942)
He hailed from Tshenstokhov (Częstochowa),
Poland. From an early age, he was
involved in the local Bundist movement.
He was in Lemberg (Lvov) in 1920.
He was a member of the regional committee and representative to the
conventions of the Bund in Galicia. When
the Soviets occupied Lemberg, he was sent to a camp. During the repatriation of Polish citizens in
1941, he contracted typhus and died. He
began publishing in Di lebns-fragn (Life issues), edited by V. Medem, in
1916 in Warsaw. From 1922 until the
outbreak of WWII, he was the correspondent from Częstochowa and Chelm, later from Eastern Galicia; and for Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper) in
Warsaw. Together with D. Naymark, he
edited the Bundist weekly Arbeter-shtime (Voice of labor), organ of the
Lemberg regional committee of the Bund.
Among his pseudonyms: Adolf, A. Trayer, A. Galitsyaner. He died in a military hospital in Yangiyo‘l (Yangi-Yul’), outside Tashkent.
Source: M. Bernshteyn, in Foroys (Mexico)
(February 15, 1954)
HERSH AMASYA (AMASIA)
HERSH AMASYA (AMASIA) (1864-May 28, 1927)
Born in Odessa. He
studied in religious schools and sang in choruses in schools and the Yiddish
theater. He became a professional actor
and was connected with the Yiddish theater in Poland. In his last years, he retired from the professional
Yiddish actors’ union in Poland. He
published his memoirs in Yidish teater (Yiddish theater), vol. 2
(Warsaw, 1927). He died in Warsaw.
Source:
Z. Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn teater, vol. 1.
EMANUEL OLSHVANGER (IMMANUEL OLSVANGER)
EMANUEL
OLSHVANGER (IMMANUEL OLSVANGER) (April 13, 1888-February 7, 1961)
He was orn in Grayeve (Grajewo), in the Lomzher region of Poland. He graduated from high school in Suvalk (Suwałki) and studied Jewish subjects with Shmuel-Leyb
Tsitron. He studied philology in Bern,
specializing in Semitic languages and Sanskrit.
In 1916 he received his doctorate for a dissertation on the topic of “Burial
Customs among the Jews, Investigated on the Basis of Language and Practice.” His work as a writer began in his student
years (he was a leader in the World Zionist Student Union, Hachaver), and he
also participated in various Zionist publications, primarily in Switzerland. He later published articles and poems as well
in the press in Palestine. In 1921 he
went to South Africa on assignment from the Zionist Organization. In 1923 he published a major work in Dorem-afrike
(South Africa), entitled: “Yidisher folklore in dorem-afrike” (Jewish folklore
in South Africa), a study of the language of South African Jews and mutual
influences of three languages: English, Boerish (Afrikaans), and Yiddish. In the years prior to WWII and the postwar
years, he traveled through Europe, India, Burma, Singapore, and Indonesia. He published in Hebrew as well as in other
languages. In 1936 he published a
philosophical work in Tsukunft (Future), “Beyn odem lemakom” (Between
man and God). In 1952 he settled in the
state of Israel.
In Israel he published over a dozen works, as well as translations
of Goethe, Dante, Boccaccio, and from Sanskrit at different times. In Yiddish he wrote: Rozinkes mit mandlen
(Raisins with almonds), a Yiddish folkloric collection, published in Romanized transcription
by the Jewish section of the Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (Swiss
Ethnographic Association) (Basel, 1920); and Royte pomerantsn (Red
oranges), also in Roman transcription (Berlin, 1936; also published in New York
with an English
translated, 1947). In 1952 he received
the Tchernichovsky Prize in Tel Aviv
for his translation of Dante’s Inferno into Hebrew. He was a pioneer researcher in Israel into
the collection of Diaspora folklore. He
was devoted to popularizing the spiritual writings of the Far East. He lived in Jerusalem until his death.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; Leyvi, in Davar (Tel Aviv)
(Kislev 6, 1954).
ELYAHU OLSHVANGER (ELIYAHU OLSVANGER)
ELYAHU
OLSHVANGER (ELIYAHU OLSVANGER) (December 15, 1878-September 19, 1952)
Born in Grayeve (Grajewo), in the Lomzher region of Poland. After graduating from high school, he studied
natural science and mathematics in St. Petersburg University and medicine and
philosophy in the Universities
of Berlin and Würzburg from which he received his doctorate. He began writing articles about political
economy in Russian, and he translated into Russian a work about cartels. During WWI, he was one of the founders and
editors of the daily Letste nayes (Recent news) in Vilna where he wrote
articles on current events as well as feature pieces on theater. He took an active part in Vilna’s community
and cultural life, worked as a lecturer at the Jewish people university, and served
a committee member of the Disseminators of Education (Mefitsey-haskole). In 1919 he moved to Berlin where he managed the
Vostok publishing house. Because of the
Nazi persecutions, he moved on to Paris and later to New York where he lived
out his final years. His books include: Der kleyner geometer (Beginner’s
book of geometry), translation of Grace Chisholm Young and W. Young (Dresden,
1921); Der koyfer fun Soana, a translation of Der Ketzer von Soana (The heretic of Soana) by
Gerhart Hauptmann (Berlin, 1922); Shtarkung fun kerper (Strengthening
the body), a translation of a work by Felix Aron Theilhaber (Berlin, 1925); and
a series of pamphlets concerning tuberculosis, rickets, and venereal disease
(Berlin, 1924-1930). In the collection
entitled Mes-les (24 hours) (Vilna, 1918), he published an article
concerning the Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.
Sources: Pinkes far der geshikhte fun vilne (Records
for the history of Vilna) (Vilna, 1922), pp. 583-90; Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon,
vol. 1.
LEYBELE OLSHANYETSKI
LEYBELE
OLSHANYETSKI (1905-December 31, 1934)
Born in Lodz, Poland into a well-to-do, intellectual
family. He received both a religious and
a general education. At age fourteen, while
a student in high school, he joined the socialist movement and became active
among his fellow pupils and labor youth in the Bundist “Tsukunft.” He was a magnificent speaker and lecturer who
had a formidable influence on Jewish youth.
In 1923 he settled in Warsaw where he worked in the association of
Jewish cooperatives in Poland. He began
writing while still in high school—poems and discourses on literary
questions. He contributed to Lodzher
veker (Lodz alarm) and Yugnt-veker (Youth alarm) in Warsaw, serving
for a time on the editorial board of the latter. He died in Warsaw from tuberculosis. He used such pen names as Leybele and L.
Olsha.
Sources:
Perets, in Yugnt-veker (Warsaw) (January 27, 1934); Y. Sh. Herts, Di
geshikhte fun a yugnt (The history of a youth) (New York, 1946), pp. 356-57;
S. Nutkevitsh, Doyres bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 2 (New
York, 1956); Kh. L. Fuks, “Dos yidishe literatur lodzh” (Yiddish literature in
Lodz), Fun noentn over 3 (New York, 1956).
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B. ALKVIT
B.
ALKVIT (December 7, 1896-February 11, 1963)
Adopted name of Leyzer Blum, son of Sholem Blum. He was born in Chelm, Poland. He studied in religious elementary school,
and at age twelve he was already a orphan.
He then left for Lublin, from there to Warsaw, and from thence he made
his way to Vienna. He arrived in the
United States in 1914 and worked as a tailor in a shop. His first poems appeared in Inzikh
(Introspection), no. 2 (February 1920).
He published poems, stories, and literary essays—in Tsukunft
(Future), Yidisher kemfer (Jewish fighter), Di feder (The pen), Fraye
arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Undzer bukh (Our book), Kern
(Kernel), Kultur (Culture) in Chicago, Hamer (Hammer), Yidish
(Yiddish), Oyfkum (Arise), Kinder-zhurnal (Children’s journal), Tog
(Day), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), and Di prese (The press),
among others. He took part in the Khelmer
yisker-bukh (Chelm memory book) (Johannesburg, 1955). From 1926 he was a regular contributor to Morgn-zhurnal. In the period 1934-1938, he served as a
member of the editorial board of Inzikh.
His works include: Afn veg tsum
perets skver (On the way to Peretz Square) (New Yoirk: Tsiko, 1958), 324
pp.; Lider (Poems) (New Yoirk: Tsiko,
1964), 99 pp. He translated Arthur
Schnitzler’s Casanovas Heimfahrt (Casanova’s homecoming) into Yiddish
(New York, 1926), 206 pp. In 1931 his
work, Vegn tsvey un andere (About two and others) (New York), 80 pp.,
appeared in print. His stories excelled
in their themes and motifs of modern Jewish life in America and their
expressionistic style. He lived in New
York until his death.
Sources:
M. Shtarkman, Hemshekh-antologye (Continuation anthology) (New York,
1945); Z. Vaynper, Yidishe shriftshteler (Jewish writers) (New York,
1933); P. Viernik, “Undzer filshprakhike literatur” (Our multilingual literature),
Morgn-zhurnal (New York) (February 22, 1931); M. Yafe, “60 yor yidishe
poezye in amerike” (60 years of Yiddish poetry in America), Letste nayes
(Tel Aviv) (February 12, 1954); B. Grobard, A fertlyorhundert (A quarter
century) (New York, 1935); Anna Margolin, Dos yidishe lid in amerike
(The Yiddish poem in America) (New York, 1923); A. Leyeles, in Inzikh no.
54 (New York) (April 1940).
PINKHAS-LEYB ALKAN
PINKHAS-LEYB ALKAN (January 28, 1895-April 3, 1960)
Born in Selts (Syalyets), Polish Lithuania. He studied with his father, a Hebrew
teacher. In 1912 he emigrated to the
United States, and in 1914 published his first piece in Dos yidishe folk
(The Jewish people). He published
sketches, stories, and one-act plays in Tog (Day), Forverts
(Forward), Varheyt (Truth), Kaliforner shtime (Voice of
California), Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), and Kundes
(Pranster), as well in such collections as Ist brodvey (East Broadway), Onheyb
(Beginning), and the like. His books
include: Di milkhome in midlvil (The war in Middleville) (New York,
1947), 293 pp.; and Dramatishe verk
(Dramatic works) (Tel Aviv: Peretz, 1962), 300 pp. He wrote dramas, one of which—entitled Rums
tsu renten (Rooms to rent)—was performed on stage. One of his plays was performed in Los Angeles
in English. Among the pseudonyms he
used: Y. Elkin, Y. Alkan, Yehoshua Alkan.
He was living in Los Angeles until his death.
Sources:
Z. Zilbertsvayg, Teater-leksikon, vol. 1; L. Fogelman, in Forverts
(November 11, 1932); B. Y. Goldshteyn, in Tog (November 11, 1932); Z.
Vaynper, in Frayhayt (August 1947); M. Kats, in Frayhayt
(Sepgtember 5, 1947); Sh. Shtern, in Vokhnblat (Toronto) (June 3, 1947).
BEN-TSION (BENZION) ALFES
BEN-TSION (BENZION) ALFES (November 5, 1850-December 23,
1940)
Born in Vilna. He
studied in religious schools as well as with his father, Rabbi Yirmyahu-Akiva,
a scholar and God-fearing man. With his
father’s death, he was orphaned at age fifteen and went to study in Eyshishok (Eišiškės). Married at age seventeen, his wealthy
mother-in-law supported him and he thus continued his studies in
Eyshishok. He later settled in Vilna
where he studied in the Gaon’s synagogue, while his wife engaged in
business. At the end of 1871 he left for
Palestine with the intention of remaining there, but his wife did not wish to
follow him there. So, after living in
Jerusalem and Hebron for two years, he returned to Vilna. Thereafter he lost his possessions, and he
became a proofreader for a publishing house.
For fifteen years he maintained this position, but he did wish to proof
novels and other ordinary “heretical” writings.
He was particularly attentive to educating poor children in religious
elementary schools and to befriending humble folk with Yiddishkeit. He studied with ordinary people, lectured in
schools and synagogue study halls, and became well known as an interpreter. He also set to translating all manner of
edifying Jewish texts from Hebrew to Yiddish.
In 1886 his publishing house in Vilna brought out his Yiddish
translation (in partnership with Rabbi Avrom Kretshmer, the Antokoly Rav) of
Rabbi Yonah Gerondi’s Shaare teshuvah (The gates of repentance) and Sefer
hayirah (Book of religious fear [of God]), to which he added an
extraordinary tale concerning Rabbi Moshe Galant, translated from the text Matok
midvash (Sweetness from honey). His
published his Yiddish translation together with the Hebrew original. This work went through several
printings. In the 1890s in small
synagogues associated with the Musar movement, people used to study Shaare
teshuvah with the Yiddish
translation by Kretshmer and Alfes. He
then went on to translate the Rambam’s last will, Rabbi Avraham Jagel’s Lekach tov (A good lesson), the biography of the Vilna Gaon from Rabbi Yitzhak
Moldan’s Even shelomo (Rock of Solomon).
As a pious counter-force
to the impact that novels and other “heretical” texts in Yiddish were having on
the young, he wrote Mayse alfes (Alfes’s tale) which described a “genuine,
heartfelt love for the one and only that one must love. A stunningly beautiful history of the
celebrated, cultivated Rachel with her beloved Joseph.” This pious novel was initially published
early in 1900 as a series of books (published by Sh. Shreberk in Vilna). The full series ran to ten parts, several
parts were republished (in 1953 the Agudat bate kenesiyot de-shikago veha-Galil
[Association of synagogues of Chicago and the Galilee] published a new,
improved edition). Mayse alfes was written in the form of a letter from a daughter to her father (the
book to the author) to whom the daughter explains her experiences and describes
her impressions, with examples and stories drawn from prominent Jewish
figures. Jewish preachers saw in Mayse alfes a modern work of Musar and used it as such. The success of Mayse alfes and the
popularity of its author enabled the Vilna press that published it, Rozenkrants
and Epshteyn, to proceed to place orders with him for translations and “Mayse alfes”-style commentaries on the regular prayer book, the high holiday
prayer book, the Passover Haggada, the night liturgy of Shavuot, supplicatory
prayers, and similar religious works. He
also adapted the Mishnah in Yiddish with a commentary in Hebrew and wrote a
text entitled Seyfer oyster
hatoyre (The treasury of the
Torah) which he described within as: “explaining the meaning of each passage of
the Pentateuch, five scrolls, and the haftaras with observations, examples, and
the eighteen perushim.” Only
the first part of Genesis was printed (Vilna: Shreberk Publishers, 1914). He also authored: Der hokhgishetster gast, a sheyne geshikhte vos
erklert di hoykhe gedanken fun unzer herlikhn tsirung (tfilin) (The highly
esteemed guest, a lovely story that explains the elevated ideas of our splendid
treasures [tefillin]) (Poltava, 1917/1918), 32 pp.; and Di vayse
khevrenikes oder nimrods soyuz (The white guys or Nimrod’s Sayuz) (Poltava,
1918), 16 pp. Aside from his own texts, Alfes also
published work in Hebrew and Yiddish of other writers, written in the spirit
and the style of Mayse alfes, with his own introductions, appendices,
and footnotes—as, for example, Hamatif,
der redner (The sermonizer) by
Gershon Pyestun, as well as other religious works: Hapaamon, der glekel (The
bell) by Meir Achun; Folks-droshes (Popular sermons) and Mayn zeydes hagode, oder a pogrom af dem
afikoymen (My grandfather’s
haggadah, or a pogrom on the afikomen) by Borekh ben Refuel Halevi Yofis; Der barimter yunger darshan, oder meshiekh
ilmim (The famed young expositor,
or savior of the silent) by Avrom Meyer Rubinshtayn; A gibet brif (A pleading letter); a Yiddish translation of R. Avraham Ibn Ezra’s Igeret ha-shabat (Epistle on the sabbath); Hilkhot
rav alfes, im miluim maaseh alfes
(Rules according to R. Alfes, supplement: Alfes’s tale); and Metav hagiyon (Studies in logic) by Samson Raphael Hirsch, translated with R.
Yitshok-Ayzik Hirshovits; among others.
During WWI, Alfes
and his sons turned up in Vilna, and in 1924 made aliya to Palestine. For a short period of time, he lived in
Petach-Tikvah, and gave lessons there in Chevra Tiferet-Bachurim, and later
with his second wife (the first died in Vilna) entered an old age home in
Jerusalem. Disregarding his old age, he
continued to be active and tried to give lessons for the seniors and sermons in
the study halls. He adapted parts of Mayse alfes in Hebrew as Ahavah
levavit tehorah (Love, genuine and
pure), a novel in two parts; Taut
nimharah o ibud atsmo ladaat (Foolish
error, or suicide) (Jerusalem, 1933).
The last of these was a translation of his short book, Der shreklikher toes (The horrible mistake), in which the protagonists
engage in a debate about Karl Marx, socialism, materialism, piety, and
humaneness; concerning the revolution of 1917, the Bolshevik regime in Russia, and
the question of labor in general. He
expressed the same contentions before the “proletarians and Bundists” in his
booklet entitled Maase alfes hachadash (Alfes’s new tale) (Tel Aviv, 1940). On his ninetieth birthday, he wrote an
autobiography entitled Zikhroynes (Memoirs) (Jerusalem, 1940).
Leyzer-Refuel Malachi
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon,
vol. 1.
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NOYEKH ALKON
NOYEKH ALKON (d. 1943)
Born in Kobrin, near Brisk (Brześć)
in Lithuania. He received a Jewish and
general education. He was active in the
Zionist movement. Until 1940 he lived in
Brisk. He was a member of the editorial
board of the Zionist weeklies, Brisker vokhnblat (Brisk weekly news) and
Kobriner shtime (Voice of Kobrin), 1932-1939, in which he published both
articles and fiction.
Source:
M. Ginzburg, Entsiklopedya shel galiut, brisk delite (Encyclopedia of
the diaspora, Brisk, Lithuania) (Jerusalem, 1954).
ALEK (AVROM LEYB KATERZINSKI)
ALEK (pen name of AVROM LEYB KATERZINSKI)
He was
the author of many story books, including: Di um grekhte velt (The
unjust world) and Der doctor bukh (The doctor book) (Warsaw, 1882), both
32 pp.
Sources: Noyekh Prylucki, Mame-loshn (Mother
tongue) (Warsaw, 1921), p. 124; Sh. Chajes, Otsar beduye hashem
(Treasury of pseudonyms) (Vienna, 1933), p. 33.
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