MOYSHE BARKHAN (1865-191?)
He was born in Polotsk, Vitebsk
region, into a merchant family. He
studied in religious primary school and synagogue study hall. He was a teacher in Warsaw. During WWI, he was in Russia and died
there. His first published writing was a
poem in Avrom Reyzen’s anthology, Yorbukh-progress (Annual-progress) of
1905. He published sketches and poems
in: Dos naye land (The new land), Telegraf (Telegraph), Haynt
(Today), Fraynd (Friend), Y. L. Peretz’s collection Yudish
(Jewish), Idishe shtime (Jewish voice) in Riga, Kinski’s Roman
tsaytung (Fiction newspaper), and Eyropayishe literatur (European literature). He also translated poems by Juliusz Słowacki and others.
Sources: Y. Entin, Yidishe poetn (Jewish poets), vol.
1 (New York, 1927); Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.
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