YOYSEF
LANDE (J. LANDA) (b. 1905)
He was born in the village of
Tatarbunary, Bessarabia. After WWI he
made his way to Brazil. He was a member
of the Jewish cultural association and library in São Paolo. He was also active in the local secular
Jewish supplementary school and in the dramatic circle connected to the
library. From the 1930s he published
poetry and stories in: Unzer shtime
(Our voice), Velt-shpigl (World
mirror), and Funken (Sparks)—in the
last of these he published a fragment of his longer story “Maratibaras”—all in
Rio de Janeiro; Haynt (Today) and Ikuf-bleter (Pages from IKUF [Jewish
cultural association]) in Buenos Aires; Yidishe
kultur (Jewish culture) and Frayhayt
(Freedom) in New York; Yidishe shriftn
(Yiddish writings) and Folksshtime
(Voice of the people) in Warsaw; and Ikuf-bleter,
gezelshaft-literarisher zhurnal (Pages from IKUF, community-literary
journal) in Bucharest; among others. In
book form: Likhtike kayorn, lider un
dertseylungen (Bright dawns, poems and stories), with a few words about
Lande’s life and work by Shimen Rodal (Rio de Janeiro, 1959), 162 pp. He was last living in São Paolo.
Sources:
A. Lifiner, in Der veg (Brazil)
(November 3, 1956); D. Sfard, in Folksshtime
(Warsaw) (July 28, 1961); Y. Zonshayn, in Yidishe
shriftn (Warsaw) (August 1961); Z. Turkov, Di ibergerisene tekufe, fragmentn fun mayn lebn (The interrupted
era, fragments from my life) (Buenos Aires: Central Publisher of Polish Jews in
Argentina, 1961), p. 384.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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