YISROEL
KHODESH (CHODESH, ISRAEL HADASH) (1912-July 4, 1972)
He was born in Vilna. In his early youth he moved with his parents
to Utyan, Lithuania, where he studied in the Jewish high school. He was later active there in Jewish school
and cultural life. He was active among
the illegal left Labor Zionists and published in Nayvelt (New world). He
escaped to Poland, lived in Warsaw, and in 1936 made aliya to Israel, after
being denounced to the police. In 1946
he founded the publisher “Nay lebn” (New life).
Following the proclamation of the state of Israel, he and M. Tsanin
founded the semi-weekly Yiddish newspaper, Letste
nayes (Latest news) and Yidishe
tsaytung (Jewish newspaper). From
1956 he was editor of the weekly Yidishe
tsaytung in Tel Aviv, in which he published—aside from editorials—translations
from Russian and French. His translation
of Alexandre Dumas’s Graf monte kristo
(The Count of Monte Cristo) appeared in installments every two weeks in Tel
Aviv. He died in Tel Aviv. A selection of his articles and critiques of
them was published in Ondenk-bukh fun
yisroel khodesh z”l (Memory volume for Yisroel Khodesh, may his memory be
for a blessing) (Tel Aviv, 1973), 263 pp.
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 271.]
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