Sunday 10 August 2014

AVROM OSTROVER

AVROM OSTROVER (b. April 1901)
     Born in Plotsk (Płock), Poland.  He was the brother of the Russian Jewish writer Liev Ostrovyer.  During WWI, he was a leader of Hashomer Hatsair (“the youth guard,” a youth Zionist socialist group).  He was by vocation a lawyer.  In the 1940s he came to the United States (Washington) as a refugee.  He published a booklet of poems entitled In ofte farnakhtn (On many an evening) (Warsaw, 1922), 44 pp.

Source: Plotsk, bletlekh geshikhte fun yidishn lebn in alter heym (Plotsk, pages from the history of Jewish life in the old country) (Buenos Aires, 1945)


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