S.
LOPUKHOV (TANKHN KREMEN) (1868-1943)
He was born in Zhaludek (Žaludok), Vilna district, Lithuania. In 1888 he immigrated to the United States
and lived for a time in New York, where he worked as a photographer. He first published a poem in April 1892 in Fraye arbeter-shtime (Free voice of
labor) in New York, using the name T. Kremen, and thereafter he frequently
published poetry in the radical publications of the day under the name S. Lopukhov. He suffered from a lung ailment from before
his arrival in America, and he thus could not remain for long in New York. In 1895 he left for Denver, Colorado, and
later moved on to Los Angeles, where he ran a photography studio. His poems would appear, with long breaks, in Fray arbeter-shtime and other labor
publications. After WWI he published
several pogrom poems which drew considerable attention. His last poems, using his American name Theo
Carmen, were published in Fraye
arbeter-shtime in August 1937. From
these poems one learns that the poet in his old age was having trouble with his
eyes and “the world was bringing darkness down upon him.” He died in Los Angeles.
Source:
N. B. Minkov, Pyonern fun yidisher poezye in amerike (Pioneers of Yiddish
poetry in America) (New York, 1956), pp. 134-72.
Borekh Tshubinski
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