KHAYIM-YANKEV BRISTOVSKI

KHAYIM-YANKEV BRISTOVSKI (b. March 2, 1892)

            He was born in Lodz.  From 1915 he was a contributor to Lodzer folksblat (Lodz people’s newspaper), later renamed Nayer folksblat (New people’s newspaper).  He brought out a weekly humorous paper, Der takhshet (The brat) from 1922 to 1924.  In book form: Milkhome-tsayt (Wartime) (Lodz, 1916), 72 pp., a collection of sketches and monologues.  He also published a novel serialized in a newspaper, A veber-hoyf (A weaver’s courtyard).

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 120.