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