BOREKH-TSVI BURSHTOK (November 4, 1901-February 5, 1926)
Born in the village of Sologubovke (Sologubovka), Ukraine, he
studied in a secular secondary school.
In 1911 he arrived with his family in New York where his father had been
living since 1905. He published poems in
Frayhayt (Freedom) (many of them children’s poems), Yugnt
(Youth), Yung-kuznye (Young smithy), Fraye arbeter shtime (Free
voice of labor), Kundes (Prankster), Di feder (The pen), as well
as in Russian publications in New York.
He translated into Yiddish poems by David Burliuk, Pleshtsheyev, and
Hafiz; and into Russian, poems by Z. Vaynper.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; A. Pomerants, in Proletpen
(Kiev, 1935).
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