BINYUMIN BLYUDZ

BINYUMIN BLYUDZ (December 22, 1893-November 19, 1977)

            He was born in Ponevezh (Panevezys), Lithuania.  He graduated from high school in St. Petersburg in 1912.  He studied medicine in Berlin and Dorpat, and received his medical degree from St. Petersburg University.  From 1921 he was living in Lithuania.  He survived WWII in Soviet Russia, and lived thereafter in Vilna and from 1971 in Israel.  In book form: Der goyrl fun yidishn doctor in lite (The fate of a Jewish doctor in Lithuania) (Tel Aviv: Igud yotse lite beyisrael [Association of former residents of Lithuania in Israel], 1974), 157 pp.  He died in Tel Aviv.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 90-91.