KARL (BETSALEL) BUROVIK (b. July 1873)
Born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils)—then, in Russia—into
a scholarly family, he studied at a secular high school in Warsaw and for three
years in the faculty of philosophy at the Zurich University in
Switzerland. He later emigrated to the
United States. He published poems in
various outlets. In the 1920s he lived
in Mexico where he published: Di makhsheyfes, a fantastishe drame in 5 aktn
(The witches, a fantasy in five acts) (Mexico, 1927), 60 pp.; Berlzon un
shmerizon in meksike, a komedye in 1 akt (Berlzon and Shmerizon in Mexico,
a comedy in one act) (Mexico, 1928), 22 pp.; Meyzl der shadkhn oder gekoylt
on a meser, a tragi-komedye in 3 aktn (Meyzl the matchmaker or slaughtered
without an knife, a tragicomedy in three acts) (Mexico, 1929), 43 pp.
Sources: Z. Zilbertsvayg, Teater-leksikon, vol. 1;
Shmuel Niger, in Tsukunft (New York) (August 1933); Y. Glants and M.
Glikovski, in Yoyvl-oysgabe undzer veg (Jubilee publication of Undzer
veg) (Mexico, January 1940).
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