ITSIK BRONFMAN (1913-1978)
He was a Soviet Jewish poet, born in Khashtshevate, Ukraine. He worked as a machinist in a locomotive
depot. From 1934 he was living in
Birobidzhan. He began publishing poems in
1929. His work appeared in Birobidzhaner
shtern (Birobidzhan star) and Birobidzhaner alamankh (Birobidzhan
almanac). During WWII, he served in the
Russian army at the front. Among his
books: Af likhtike vegn (Along lighted roads), poems (1948), published
by the Jewish Autonomous Region of Birobidzhan.
His writing was included in the anthology Yidishe avtonome gegnt (The Jewish Autonomous Region) (Khabarovsk,
1960).
Sources:
Y. Dobrushin, in Eynikeyt (Moscow) (November 18, 1948); N. Fridman, in Eynikeyt
(May 17, 1947); Keneder odler (November 4, 1946).
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 116.]
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 116.]
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