OSHER-ARYE GOLDIN (LEON GOLDIN) (May 11, 1892-April 18, 1966)
He was born in Turov (Turaŭ),
Polyesye. He was the son of Ayzik-Ber
Goldin, author of the religious work, Otiyot maḥkimot (Enlightening letters)
(part 1, Pinsk, 1912). He studied in religious
primary school and with a private teacher.
At age fourteen he left his town for Feodosia, Crimea, and from there went
to Kiev where he graduated from a secular high school as an external
student. He supported himself by giving
private lessons. For a short time he worked
for the Hebrew writer Avraham Kahane, helping him translated Russian words and
expressions for his Russian-Hebrew dictionary.
He also translated short stories from Yiddish into Russian for a Jewish
publishing house in Odessa. In 1910 he
published in Had hazman (Echo of the times) in Vilna his first
Hebrew-language story, and in Gut morgn (Good morning) in Odessa his
first Yiddish-language story. He
contributed to the two newspapers until 1913 when he emigrated to the United
States. He settled in New York, continued
his studies, and graduate with a medical degree from New York Medical College
in 1921. He also continued his literary
activities and published in Kol hamore (Voice of the teacher), Haynt
(Today) in Warsaw (1913), Hadoar (The mail), Neyar (Paper), Oyfgang
(Arise) (1923), Dovid Pinski’s Der idisher arbeter (The Jewish laborer)
(1921-1926), Di feder (The pen) (1928-1932), Tsuzamen (Together)
(1931), Unzer folk (Our people) (1932), Nyu Yorker vokhnblat (New
York weekly newspaper) and Di idishe shtime (The Jewish voice) (1935), Shikago
(Chicago) (1938-1939) and Kultur (Culture) in Chicago, Kama, and Harofe
haivri (The Jewish doctor). Among
his books: Refua (Medicine), part 1 (New York, 1924), part 2 (New York,
1927), together with Dr. M. A. Herbert and Dr. Osher Goldshteyn; Geven a
tsayt (There was a time), stories (New York, 1930), 128 pp.; Mayn vort
un klang (My word and sound), poetry (Warsaw, 1936), 96 pp.; Der talmid
(The pupil), a drama (New York, 1941), 42 pp.; Kirkur hakilayon (The dance
of ruination), a Hebrew poem (New York, 1943), 32 pp.; Milon refui
angli-ivri (English-Hebrew medical dictionary) (New York, 1945). He was the literary editor of Harofe
haivri (1936-1946) and editor of Gezunt-almanakh (Health almanac)
(New York, 1945). He was a member of
Tarbut in Kiev. In 1922 he was one of
the founders of “Agudat rofim ivrim” (Association of Jewish doctors) in the
United States. In 1924 he served as a delegate
from Bnei Tsiyon (Sons of Zion) to the Zionist conference in Pittsburgh. He also wrote under the names Leon Goldin and
Lev Borisov. He was living in New York.
Yankev Kohen
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