KHAYIM-YANKL
BZHUSTOVSKI (CHAIM JANKEL BRZUSTOWSKI) (1893-November 1941)
Born in Lodz into a family of retailers, he attended
religious elementary school as well as a Talmud Torah. He was a laborer, active in
Poale-Tsiyon. He was a leader in the
Yiddish section of the Lodz library. He
was a member of the managing committee of the literary association in
Lodz. He began publishing (reportage and
sketches) in Lodsher folksblat (Lodz people’s newspaper) in 1915, and he
was a correspondent for Moment (Moment) and Nayer folksblat (New people’s
newspaper), 1926-1939. He wrote theater
reviews and was one of the members of the editorial board (together with Moyshe
Broderzon and Lazar Fuks) of Yidisher zhurnalist (Jewish journalist) in
Lodz in 1919. Among his pseudonyms:
Ben-khanukh, A Sharftsingl, Teater-mensh.
Among his books: Milkhome-tsayt (Wartime), sketches and
impressions (Lodz, 1917), 78 pp.; Zi shpilt vayter, pyese in dray aktn un
fir bilder (She plays further, a play in three acts and four scenes) (Lodz,
1936), 77 pp. He was the editor of Der
takhshet (The brat), a weekly newspaper of humor (Lodz, 1925). In 1939 he was in Bialystok; in 1940 he was
in Vilna and later in the Vilna ghetto.
In November 1941 he was sent to Ponar and murdered there.
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