BINYUMIN-ZEV BLUM-MAKHLIN (ZEEV BLUM)

BINYUMIN-ZEV BLUM-MAKHLIN (ZEEV BLUM) (1900-September 16, 1979)

           He was born in Makov (Maków Mazowiecki), Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school and yeshiva.  From 1920 he was living in Moscow and from 1928 in Leningrad, where he worked in the municipal library as a certified bibliographer.  In October 1937 he was deported to Siberia for left Labor Zionist work.  He was rehabilitated in 1964, and he returned to Leningrad.  In 1970 he moved to Israel.  He wrote articles on literary and historical topics in Naye arbeter-velt (New workers’ world) (Warsaw, 1925); Proletarisher gedank (Proletarian thoughts) (Warsaw, 1928); Sovetish heymland (Soviet homeland) (Moscow, 1969, issue no. 1); and in the Israeli Folksblat People’s newspaper), Bay zikh (On one’s own), Yisroel-shtime (Voice of Israel), Yerusholaimer almanakh (Jerusalem annual), Al hamishmar (On guard), and others.  In book form: Dem zeydns kroyn (Grandfather’s crown), concerning Mendele Moykher-Sforim (Tel Aviv: Peretz Publ., 1978), 152 pp.; Poyle-tsien in ratnfarband, zikhroynes, gedanken un dokumentn (Labor Zionism in the Soviet Union, memoirs, thoughts, and documents) (Tel Aviv: Peretz Publ., 1978), 268 pp.; Fun makov biz di hore-khoyshek, zikhroynes (From Maków to the mountains of darkness, memoirs) (Tel Aviv: Peretz Publ., 1979), 291 pp.  He died in Tel Aviv.

Source: Sh. Shvaytser, ed., Shures poyle-tsien, portretn (Rows of Labor Zionism, portraits) (Tel Aviv, 1981), see index.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 89.