Friday, 3 April 2015

YOYSEF BERKOVITSH

YOYSEF BERKOVITSH (b. 1901)
He was born in Jassy, Romania.  After WWI, he became a teacher in Jewish schools in southern Bessarabia.  He later studied medicine in Italy.  For a short time he practiced as a pediatrician in Bessarabia.  In the 1930s, he published literary articles in: Di vokh (The week) and Shoybn (Glass) in Bucharest.  He published as well treatises on Yiddish literature in the Romanian Yiddish periodical press.  During WWII, he escaped to Russia and there he remained.

Source: Verbal information from Dr. Sh. Bikl.


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