MIKHL
USISHKIN (MICHAEL USISKIN) (1886-1950)
He was born in the village of
Loshvide, Byelorussia. He studied in religious
elementary school. He lived later in Horodek,
Vitebsk, and from 1906 to 1910 in London.
At the end of 1910 he emigrated to Canada and took up farming. He wrote reportage pieces and stories drawn
from the life of a Jewish farmer in Dos
yidishe vort (The Yiddish word) in Winnipeg, Vokhnblat (Weekly newspaper) in Toronto, and Morgn frayhayt (Morning freedom) and Tog (Day) in New York, among others. In book form: Oksn un motorn, zikhroynes fun idishn farmer-pyoner (di geshikhte fun
idnbridzh) (Oxen and motors, memoirs of a Jewish pioneer farmer, the
history of Edenbridge) (Toronto, 1945), 195 pp.
Source:
Kh. L. Fuks, Hundert yor yidishe un hebreishe literatur
in kanade (A century of Yiddish and Hebrew literature in Canada) (Montreal,
1980).
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