MAREK GINZBERG (1901-1937)
He was born in Lodz, Poland, into a
wealthy, Hassidic family. He studied in
religious elementary school, a Hebrew high school, and for a time he studied Warsaw
journalism. When young he joined the labor
movement and was active in the cultural work of the left in Lodz. He began writing poetry and essays in Polish,
later moving over to Yiddish, and he published articles in Literarishe
tribune (Literary tribune) and Der fraydenker (The free thinker) of
which he also served on the editorial board.
Because of political litigation, he was forced to leave Poland. He lived for a time in Danzig, and from there
he departed for Russia, where was liquidated during the show trials of 1937.
Source:
Kh. L. Fuks, in Fun noentn over (New York), vol. 3 (1957).
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