MOYSHE GLIKOVSKI

MOYSHE GLIKOVSKI (March 1904-May 7, 1980)

            Born in Kolno, Łomża district, Poland, he studied in religious primary school and the synagogue study hall.  As a youth, he was drawn into the youth movement of the Bund.  At that time he also began to write.  He published his first poem in Sotsyalistishe yugnt-shtime (Socialist voice of youth) in Warsaw (1920).  That year he moved away from Poland and in 1921 arrived in Mexico where he lived for over twenty-five years.  From 1947 he was living in the United States.  In Mexico City he was on the editorial board of the organ of the Labor Zionists, Unzer vort (Our word) in 1923, Meksikaner yidish lebn (Mexican Jewish life) in 1927, and Der veg (The way) in 1930.  He also contributed to Spanish-language newspapers and magazines.  In 1927, together with the poets Yitskhok Berliner and Yankev Glants, they brought out a joint volume of poems entitled Dray vegn (Three ways).  He later published and edited Meksikaner shriftn (Mexican writings) in 1936, and the weekly Tsienistishe tribune (Zionist tribune) in 1946.  He also wrote for Idisher kemfer (Jewish fighter), Tog (Day), and Nyu-yorker vokhnblat (New York weekly newspaper)—all in New York.  He published stories of Mexican life.  He also made an abridged translation of the novel Dem yids tokhter (The Jew’s daughter) by Justo Sierra O’Reilly [original: La hija del judío], published in Der veg.  From 1952 he was a regular contributor to Folk un velt (People and world), published by the World Jewish Congress in New York.  Among his books: Blondzhendike gayster, poeme un proze (Wandering spirits, poem and prose) (Mexico City, 1929), 57 pp.; Daniel shtaplen, roman (Daniel Shtaplen, a novel) (Mexico City, 1946), 2 vols., 512 pp. (recipient of an award from the Jewish central committee in Mexico City).,  Among his pen names: M. Gliko, Moglik, Vogler, Dov, Borukhovitsh, and Peregrino, among others.  He died in Mexico City, where he lived for the last nine years of his life.

Sources: M. Kahan, in Der veg (Mexico City) (September 7, October 12, 1946); Y. B. Beylin, in Morgn frayhayt (New York) (July 27, 1947); Y. Botoshanski, in Di prese (Buenos Aires) (January 7, 1948); Y. Vinyetski, in Der veg (March 14, 1958).

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 162.]