NAFTOLE GERBOVSKI (b. June 15, 1890)
He was born in Raczki, near
Suwalki. He studied in religious primary
schools and yeshivas. During the Polish
occupation, he was in Minsk becoming a Zionist leader. After the defeat of the Bolsheviks, in 1921, he
left for Vilna where he was, until WWII, active in the Jewish National
Fund. In 1940 he assembled material for
the Jewish World Congress concerning the German violence against Jews. In the same year, he and his family made aliya
to Israel. He had begun his literary
activities in 1910. He published in
Minsk in the holiday leaflet Zumer un vinter
(Summer and winter), and the literary collections Friling-klangen (Sounds of spring) and Stralen (Rays [of light])—all in 1913; in Minsker shpigl (Minsk mirror), a Zionist daily newspaper which
began appearing September 3, 1914; and Dos
idishe vort (The Jewish word), a literary-political community newspaper
which began appearing April 27, 1917. He
also contributed to Minsker lebn
(Minsk life), a political-literary community weekly newspaper (edited by M.
Rakovtshik) which first appeared October 2, 1913. In these publications, he wrote editorials,
feature pieces, and serialized fiction.
During the Polish occupation while he was in Minsk, he contributed articles
to: Farn folk (For the people), organ
of the Zionist organization in Byelorussia (edited by Kh. D. Hurvits), first
issue appearing September 1919; and he published in the one-time satirical work
Der tayvl (The devil). In 1921, after arriving in Vilna, he wrote
for Undzer fraynd (Our friend), and
for a time he edited this newspaper; for Haynt
(Today) in Warsaw; and for Tsayt
(Time) in Vilna. Among his pseudonyms:
Profesor Shprits, Kavesberg, Elye Shlukhe, Rivesman, and Sudarski. He was living in Israel.
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