DOVID GLOBUS
He spent his childhood and youth in
Vilna. He studied at the boys’ school of
the society “Mefitse haskalah” (Society for the promotion of enlightenment
[among the Jews of Russia]), later at Kovno University. While still in school he wrote poems and was
one of the most published collectors of Jewish folklore. Until WWII, he contributed to Folksblat
(People’s newspaper) in Kovno, edited by Y. Mark, Dr. M. Sudarski, and
others. He was also the news editor and
editor of the humor page there, published every Friday. He specialized in learning the language
dialects of the Gypsies. He gained
control over four of them fully. From
his numerous translations and poetic transpositions from Romani, a small number
appeared in print in Folksblat in Kovno, Vokhnshrift (Weekly
writings) in Warsaw, and several other newspapers and magazines. During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania
(1940), on suspicion of working with the previous Lithuanian police, he was
arrested and deported to a camp in Siberia where he died.
Sources:
M. Minkov, Yoyvl-heft fun der yingl-shul “Mefitse haskole” (Jubilee volume of the boys’ school, “Mefitse haskalah”)
(Vilna, 1936), pp. 53-54; Vokhnshrift (August 4, 1932); Lite
(Lithuania), anthology (New York, 1951), p. 1111.
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