Tuesday, 31 May 2016

KHAYIM-YANKEV VILA (EUGENIO VILLA)

KHAYIM-YANKEV VILA (EUGENIO VILLA) (1891-August 21, 1970)
            He was born in Hungary.  In 1919 he moved to Argentina.  His books include: Erets yehuda, a baytrag tsu der leyzung tsu der idn-frage (The land of Judah, a contribution to the solution of the Jewish question) (Buenos Aires, 1939), 8 pp.; Naye vegn (New paths) (Buenos Aires, 1943), 103 pp.; Hot argentinter yidisher yishev take aza pomen? (Does the Argentinian Jewish community really look like that?) (Buenos Aires: Saadya, 1955), 18 pp.  He died in Jerusalem.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 245.


3 comments:

  1. Eugenio Villa was my grandfather. He passed away in Jerusalem in 1970.

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  2. Thanks, I knew he died in August, I checked the date - it was August 21st, 1970, Av 30th (1st day of Rosh Hodesh Elul)

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