Thursday 5 March 2015

LEYZER (ELIEZER) BERGMAN

LEYZER (ELIEZER) BERGMAN
     His family came from Radzymin, near Warsaw.  He worked with the Joint during WWI.  He was the author of stories and humorous sketches.  For a time he lived in Cracow.  He wrote under the pen name A. Kundes (“a prankster”).  Among his writings: Nikolais gzeyres, fun amolike yidishe tsores in rusland (Nikolai’s evil decrees, from the Jewish troubles in Russian of bygone days), a humorous story (Warsaw), 16 pp.; Kotsker mayses (Stories of the Kotsker rebbe), part 1 (Warsaw, 1924), 50 pp., part 2 (Warsaw, 1929); Dos poylishe shtetl, dertseylung fun shmuglarishn lebn unter di daytshishe okupatsye (The Polish town, a story of a smuggler’s life under the German occupation) (Warsaw, 1926), 123 pp.; Monologn tsu monologirn oyf ovntn un farvaylungen (Monologues to carry on monologues in the evening and for recreation) (Warsaw, 1927), 72 pp.; Azoy zogt der kundes (Thus spake the prankster) (Warsaw, 1932), 64 pp.  He died in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Sources: Berl Kuczer, Geven amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955), p. 150; Yidishe shriftn (Yiddish writings) (Lodz, 1946), see section on remembrance.


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