YOYSEF (YOZEF) GILSON (b. ca. 1862)
He was an American Yiddish
poet. He published poems in Folks-advokat
(People’s advocate) (May 25, 1894): “Af der milkhome, oys dem polnishn” (Off to
war, away with the Poles); in Der idisher pok (The Jewish Puck): “Vi es
dreyt zikh” (How things turn around), reprinted in the London humor magazine Pipipaks
(March 1, 1896; February 22, 1922), and “Sfire un mai” (Counting the omer and
May) (April 26, 1896). He was also the
author of a booklet of poems entitled Ideshe melodyen (Jewish melodies)
(New York, 1897), poems on national and social themes, 48 pp.
Sources:
Oral information from N. B. Minkov.
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