BOREKH VITENBERG

BOREKH VITENBERG (b. 1909)

            He was born in Zdunske-Volye (Zduńska Wola), near Lodz, Poland, into a poor laboring family.  He studied in religious elementary school, later becoming a worker.  He lived for a time in Warsaw and in Lodz, where he was active among the youth of the left Labor Zionists.  He began his writing activities in 1928 with articles and poems in Nayer folksblat (New people’s newspaper) in Lodz.  He was a member of the editorial board of the literary collections, Af der shvel (At the threshold) 1-3 (he wrote the preface to the issue no. 1) (Warsaw, 1931), in which, aside from the impressionistic pieces—“Di benkshaft tsu arbet” (Nostalgia for work) and “lebn un toyt” (Life and death)—he also published literary criticism.  He expressed the moods of young Jewish writers in secluded Polish Jewish provincial towns.  When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he escaped to Russia.  From the point there has been no further information about him.

Source: Y. P. (Pat), in Vokhnshrift far literatur (Weekly writings for literature) (Warsaw) (July 17, 1931).