H. [HIRSH] BRIL (1901-late May 1938)
He was a Soviet Jewish writer, born
in Bialystok. He edited the journal Yungvald
(Young forest) which appeared in Moscow in 1926, and Pyoner (Pioneer), a
monthly children’s magazine, organ of the Russian Communist Youth Association
(Moscow, 1928). He was arrested in 1937
and executed the following year.
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 120.]
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