YOYSEF
LEZMAN (b. 1904)
He was born in Berdichev, Ukraine. He later lived in Kiev and Moscow. He graduated from the Communist University of
National Minorities of the West (Mayrevke) in Moscow. He was an active leader in the Jewish section
of the organizations “Pyonir” (Pioneer) and “Komyug” ([Jewish] Communist youth
association), as well as in “Gezerd” (All-Union
Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR).
He was secretary (1927-1929) of
the central bureau of the Jewish section of the central committee of Komyug. He began writing for the
Berdichev newspaper for youth Yugnt-glokn
(Youth bells) in 1921 and later was one of the editors of Yungvald (Young forest) in Moscow (1926-1928). He was a member of the editorial board of the
children’s magazine Pyonir in Moscow
(1925-1928), Yung gvardye (Young
guard) in Kharkov (1924-1936), and Yunger
boy-klang (Young sound of construction) in Kharkov (1927-1928). He contributed pieces as well to: Der emes (The truth) in Moscow; Der shtern (The star) and Di royte velt (The red world) in
Kharkov; and elsewhere. He was the
author of: Der komyug in der idisher
svive (The Communist youth association in the Jewish environment) (Moscow,
1927), 86 pp.; Dos muz visn yeder
komyugist (Every member of Komyug must know this) (Moscow, 1928), 73 pp.; Fun sayde-menukhe biz kalinindorf (From
Sayde-menukhe to Kalinidorf), images of life on Jewish collective farms (Kiev,
1932), 124 pp. (published earlier in separate features pieces in Der emes and other newspapers). Together with Sh. Golubyatski and A.
Yeruzalimski, he compiled the reader Polit-alef-beys
farn komyugist (Political alphabet for the Komyugist) (Moscow, 1925), 186
pp. He was at the front during WWII, and
thereafter he lived in Kharkov.
Sources:
A. Kirzhnits, Di yidishe prese in
ratnfarband, 1917-1927 (The Yiddish press in the Soviet Union, 1917-1927)
(Minsk, 1928), nos. 275, 294; Biblyografishe
yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), see
index; N. Rubinshteyn, Dos yidishe bukh
in sovetnfarband in 1932 (The Yiddish book in the Soviet Union in 1932),
(Kiev, 1932), no. 186; Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications
in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 350; 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), p. 219.]
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