YOYSEF
BURG (May 30, 1912-August 10, 2009)
He was born in Vishnits,
Bukovina. He studied in a public
school. Over the years 1935-1938, he pursued
Germanic studies at Vienna University.
He lived in the Ural Mountains from 1941 to 1958. He was later in Czernowitz where he worked as
a teacher. He first published in 1934: a
story in Tshernovitser bleter
(Czernowitz pages]. He wrote stories,
novellas, and sketches for Literarishe
bleter (Literary leaves) in Warsaw, Shoybn
(Glass panes) in Bucharest, Di vokh
(The week) and later Sovetish heymland
(Soviet homeland) in Moscow, Folks-shtime
(Voice of the people) in Warsaw, and Naye
prese (New press) in Paris. Among
his works: Afn tshermosh (On the Czeremosz [River]) (Bucharest, 1939), 67 pp.; Sam (Sam)
(Czernowitz, 1940), 64 pp.; Dos lebn geyt vayter,
dertseylungen, noveln, skitsn (Life goes on further: stories,
novellas, sketches) (Moscow: Sovetski pisatel, 1980), 289 pp.; Iberuf
fun tsaytn (Roll-call of the times) (Moscow: Sovetski pisatel,
1983), 64 pp. He was preparing for
publication: A farshpetikter echo (A late
echo), stories. He was last living in
Czernowitz. “Yoysef Burg is a wonderful
describer,” wrote Lili Berger. “His
prose occupies high artistic heights. At
times it is poetry in prose form.”
Sources: Foroys
(Warsaw) (May 26, 1939); Der shpigl
(Buenos Aires) (June 29, 1939); Shloyme Bikl, in Romenye (Romania) (Buenos Aires, 1961); A. Roytman, in Yidishe shriftn (Warsaw) 10 (1964);
Yulyan Shvarts, in Folks-shtime
(Warsaw) (August 1, 1977); H. Remenik, in Sovetish
heymland (Moscow) 3 (1978); M. Belenki, in Morgn-frayhayt (New York) (March 7, 1981); Y. Kara, in Naye prese (Paris) (April 25, 1981); Kh.
Zeltser, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv)
(July 1981); Elye Shulman, in Forverts (New
York) (July 26, 1981); M. Margolin,
in Sovetish heymland 11 (1981); Lili
Berger, in Unzer vort (Paris)
(December 12, 1981); Y. Urman, in Letste
nayes (June 25, 1982); A. Kvaterko, in Folks-shtime
(Warsaw) (August 28, 1982); Y. Rabin, in Folks-shtime
(February 19, 1983); Sh. Shtern, in Morgn-frayhayt
(January 15, 1984); B. Miler, Birebidzhaner
shtern (March 17, 1985); Berger, in Kheshbn
(Los Angeles) 99.
Most
drawn from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), cols. 73-74.
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