ARYE
LEYBENZON
He was born in Dokshits (Dokshytsy),
Vilna district, into a poor family. With
help from local Dokshits leaders, he made his way to Vilna, where he studied in
the design school at the “Help through work” trade school and was active in the
community in religious Zionist circles.
In 1927, before he departed for South Africa, he published (under the
name Arye ben Arye) the pamphlet: Yidishizm
un zayn tendentsyeze praktik (Yiddishism and its tendencies in practice)
(Vilna: Kreynes un Kovalski, 1927), 20 pp., in which he attempted from a naïve point
of view to come out against “Zhargon, which the Yiddishists give the name
Yiddish and want to transform into national language.”
Source:
L. Ran, in 25 yor yung vilne
(Twenty-five years of Young Vilna), anthology (New York, 1955).
Leyzer Ran
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