A. BEN-TSVI (b. 1888)
Pen name of Avrom Sheynuk, he was born in Mikhalishek, Vilna
region, to parents who were followers of the Jewish Enlightenment
movement. His father was a student of
Avrom Lebenzon. He received a radical
nationalist education. From 1905 he was
living in the United States. He graduated
from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
He was employed in various trades while living in New York. He began publishing with poems and stories in
Fraye arbeter shtime (Voice of free labor) in 1906. From that time forward, he published in a
variety of newspapers, as well as in Tsukunft (Future) and Frayhayt
(Freedom).
Source:
N. Mayzil, ed. and comp., Amerike in yidishn vort, antologye (America in
the Yiddish word, an anthology) (New York, 1955), p. 455.
No comments:
Post a Comment