L. BERNARD

L. BERNARD (1908-October 15, 1972)

            He was born in Lodz and studied in religious primary school and yeshiva.  He graduated from high school and went on to study in Strasbourg.  In 1931 he received his diploma as a chemical engineer and in 1936 his masters degree in biology.  During WWII he was in Switzerland.  He was active as a Communist.  For a short time he edited the left Labor Zionist Arbeter-vort (Workers’ word) in Paris.  He wrote for Parizer tsayshrift (Paris periodical).  He became involved in research on Yiddish and worked on a Yiddish-French and French-Yiddish dictionary which was interrupted by his premature death.  He died in Paris.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 109.