AVROM GILBERT (b. 1888)
He was born in Radzymin, near
Warsaw, Poland, into a well-to-do family; he was a cousin of the playwright Shloyme
Gilbert. He received a traditional
Jewish education and later became a worker in a publishing business. In 1911, after serving for a time in the
Russian military, he moved to Shedlets (Siedlce)
and opened a small publishing house. Together
with D. Naymark and Y. H. Fishman, in 1911 he was a founder of the first
Yiddish newspaper in Shedlets, Shedletser vort (Shedlets word). He published there his own first poems. He also contributed to a collection of
lyrical poetry together with D. Naymark, Di nakhtigal (The nightingale)
(Shedlets, 1912), 32 pp. for Gilbert and 8 pp. for Naymark. During WWI, he served in the Russian army,
later settling in Switzerland.
Source:
Y. Kaspi, in Sefer yizkor lekehilat shedlets (Remembrance volume for the community of
Shedlets) (Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, 1956). (b. 1888)
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