Y.
SH. LEVMAN (b. 1896)
He was born in Vitebsk,
Byelorussia. He was an active leader in Komyug
([Jewish] Communist youth association) and in the district office of the Jewish
section of the Communist Party. He lived
for a time in Kharkov and later (in 1926) in Moscow. He wrote poetry, literary critical articles,
and reportage pieces for Der royter
shtern (The red star) in Vitebsk (1920-1923), for which he also served as
co-editor (with L. Abram and Y. Faykin).
He was one of the editors of: the Vitebsk literary-artistic journal Kvalyes (Waves) in 1921, in whose first
issue he led off with a poem and essay “Der yunger poet” (The young poet),
dedicated to Perets Markish’s poetry collection Shveln (Thresholds) of 1919.
He later assisted in editing: Yungvald
(Young forest) in Moscow (1923-1925); Der
emes (The truth) in Moscow (from 1924); Vitebsker
arbeter (Vitebsk worker) (1925-1926); and the anthology Tsum ondenk fun y. l. perets (To the
memory of Y. L. Perets) (Vitebsk, 1921) for which he wrote the first essay, “Y.
l. perets un zayn epokhe” (Y. L. Perets and his epoch). In book form: Prof-ivre (Jewish trade unions) (Moscow, 1927), 161 pp., “the first
attempt to create a textbook on the trade union movement in Yiddish.” His work on the Vitebsk synagogue study halls
was published in Der emes in New York
in 1921. There has been no news about
him since the 1930s. A cycle of his
poems appeared in Sovetish heymland
(Soviet homeland) 11 (1987).
Sources:
Yungvald (Moscow) 5 (1924); A. Kirzhnits, Di yidishe prese in vaysrusland, 1917-1927
(The Yiddish press in Byelorussia, 1917-1927) (Minsk, 1929), no. 183; Z.
Ratner and Y. Kvitko, Dos yidishe bukh in
f. s. r. r. far di yorn 1917-1921 (The Yiddish book in the USSR for the
years 1917-1921) (Kiev, 1930), see index; Y. Kvitko, in Biblyologisher zamlbukh (Moscow) 1 (1930); Y. Bronshteyn, in Atake (Kharkov-Minsk) (1931), pp. 27, 33;
B. Orshanski, in Tsaytshrift (Minsk)
5 (1931); Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim
yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet
Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Additional
information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon
fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish
writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York:
Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), pp. 218.]
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