YANKEV-HERSH
ZILBERSHTEYN (1889-April 19, 1977)
He was born in Koriv (Kurów), Lublin
district, Poland, into a family of a poor scribe. He studied in religious primary school,
synagogue study hall, and secular subjects via self-study. As a youth he became a laborer. He took part in the revolutionary movement in
Warsaw, Nikolaev, and Kherson. In 1913
he moved to Canada and settled in Winnipeg.
He became a railroad worker and took part in the local anarchist
movement. He was cofounder and chairman
of the Winnipeg division of the Jewish Labor Committee. He was also cofounder of the Workmen’s Circle
school and chairman of its educational committee. He wrote articles for Fraye arbeter-shtime (Free voice of labor) in New York, in which he
published (1957-1958) a series of memoirs under the title “Ikh bin gevorn a
frayhaytlekher sotsyalist” (I became a free socialist). In Yizker-bukh-koriv
(Remembrance volume for Kurów) (Tel Aviv, 1955), pp. 821-92, he published a
piece entitled “Hunderter epizodn, kuryozn un pasirungen” (Hundreds of episodes
of curiosities and events), which both had great significance for Jewish
history in Kurów and had its own general literary value. He died in Winnipeg, Canada.
Source:
M. Grosman, ed., Yizker-bukh-koriv
(Remembrance volume for Kurów) (Tel Aviv, 1955), p. 7.
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