FROYM
DAVIDZON (EFRAIM DAVIDSON) (June 21, 1899-June 27, 1964)
He
was born in the village of Dombroven (Dumbrăveni), near Soroka (Soroca), Bessarabia. His father, Sheftl, was a businessman and
mohel. He studied in religious primary
schools and on his own mastered secular subject matter. From his youth he worked as a Hebrew teacher
in Romania and Bessarabia. From 1930 he
was living in Israel, where he worked as a teacher in Ramat Gan. He was active in a number of cultural
institutions in Israel and a co-founder of the society of folklore “Yeda Am”
(Folklore). He made a trip to the United
States in 1952. He began writing
humorous sketches and feature pieces in Yiddish in the Yiddish press in Bessarabia
and Poland. He published in Undzer tsayt (Our time) in Kishinev, in Moment (Moment) in Warsaw, and
elsewhere. In Hebrew he published in
Israeli humorous publications, such as: Keyad
hamelekh (Plentiful) and Mehodu vead
kush (From India to Ethiopia). He
was the author of such Hebrew-language children’s books as: Hedad aliti! (Raise a cheer!) (Tel Aviv,
1938), 60 pp.; Tsilume reḥovi
(Photographs of my street); and the Hebrew-language humor anthology, Seḥok pinu (Laughter
from the mouth) (Tel Aviv, 1951), 515 pp., with a foreword by Dov Sadan. This anthology includes a large selection of
humor from Yiddish literature, with biographies of the represented Yiddish
writer. He died in Ramat-Gan.
Sources:
Moyshe Shtarkman, in Dos idishe folk
(New York) (March-May 1952), pp. 44-47; D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of
the yishuv), vol. 5 (Tel Aviv, 1952), pp. 2278-79.
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