AVROM BEKER

AVROM BEKER (b. March 10, 1909)

            He was born in Tartatov, Galicia.  He studied in religious elementary school, yeshiva, and Hebrew high school.  He graduated from the law faculty of Lemberg University in 1934.  He was in the ghetto and was saved by a Christian who hid him.  In 1945 he moved to Italy, in 1948 to Buenos Aires, and in 1972 he made aliya to Israel.  He published articles in Yiddish in Baderekh (On the road) in Rome, Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) and Di prese (The press) in Buenos Aires, Letste nayes (Latest news) and Yidishe tsaytung in Tel Aviv.  He edited the memorial volume Sokal (Sokal [a town in Ukraine]) (1968).  In book form: Kehilatayim, husyatin vekopichintsa (Two communities: Husiatyn and Kopycznce) (Tel Aviv, 1977), 286 pp., in both Yiddish and Hebrew; Shir hashirim, akdamut, ḥad gadya (Song of Songs, Akdamut, An Only Kid) (Tel Aviv: Hatikva, 1984), 88 pp., translated into verse; Rut, ekha, kohelet, ester (Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther), free translations into Yiddish verse (Tel Aviv: Hatikva, 1985), 183 pp.

Sources: Sh. Kats, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (November 12, 1976); M. Hampel, in Yidishe tsaytung (Tel Aviv) (February 18, 1977).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 100, 540.