MOYSHE
BERNSHTEYN (August 15, 1920-December 2006)
He was a painter and a poet, born in
Kartuz-Bereza, Poland. He studied in
religious elementary school, yeshiva, and a Tarbut school. In 1939 he graduated from art school in
Vilna. During WWII he was in the Soviet
Union and from 1947 in Israel. He wrote
poems for Yugnt-veker (Youth alarm)
in Warsaw, Goldene heyt (Golden
chain) and Letste nayes (Latest news)
in Tel Aviv, among others. His albums
with poetry include: Yidishe geshtaltn
(Jewish images) (Tel Aviv: Yevana, 1957), 12 pp.; Yidishe suzhetn (Jewish subjects) (Tel Aviv, 1963), 14 pp.; Di balade fun yidishn shtetl (Ballad of
the Jewish town) (Tel Aviv, 1965), 18 pp.; Mayne
intime minutn (My intimate minutes, poetry) (Tel Aviv, 1975), 48 pp. He illustrated Itsik Manger’s Shtern un shtoyb (Stars and dust) of
1967 and Tsen lider un baladn (Ten
poems and ballads) of 1982. In 1982 he
received the Manger Prize. He was “the
singer and painter of the…murdered world,” wrote Y. Yanasovitsh, “which was his
own world.”
Sources:
Y. Karnhendler, in Yisroel shtime
(Tel Aviv) (March 10, 1975); M. Ts-n (Tsanin), in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (May 9, 1975); D. Gledi, in Mayrev (Tel Aviv) (May 23, 1975); Y.
Yanasovitsh, in Folksblat (Tel Aviv)
(July 1975); A. Lis, In
der mekhitse fun shafer (Tel Aviv, 1978), pp. 188-92; Y. Luden, in Letste nayes
(January 15, 1982).
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 111.
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