FROYM BLAY

FROYM BLAY (November 15, 1908-October 30, 1962)

            He was born in Jassy (Iași), Romania.  He began writing poetry in 1933, initially in German and later in Yiddish.  He was published in the Burcherest Ikuf-bleter (Pages from IKUF [Jewish Cultural Association]) and Kultur-vegvayzer (Cultural guide).  In book form: Mit poshete verter (With simple words) (Bucharest: State Publishers, 1957), 183 pp., together with Relly Blay; In shoen fun troyer, in reges fun freyd (In hours of grief, in moments of joy) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1982), 168 pp., with Relly Blay.  He died in Bucharest.

Sources: Y. Kara, in Folks-shtime (Warsaw) (June 22, 1957); Kara, Bukareshter shriftn 6 (1983), pp. 188-90.

Y. Kara

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