BENYOMEN
MEYEROVITSH (b. ca. 1899)
He was born in a town near Ponevezh
(Panevėžys), Lithuania.
At age three he fell into a swamp and was paralyzed in one arm and a
foot. In 1915 he was wandering around
with the Jewish homeless of Lithuania and turned up in Ekaterinoslav. In 1921 he attempted to return home, but at
the border people would not leave him behind and sent him back to
Ekaterinoslav. He wrote poetry and
published it in the anthology Trep
(Stairs) and other periodicals. In 1922
he brought out a booklet of poems entitled Rusland
(Russia) (Ekaterinoslav: Transport).
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2; Chone
Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim
babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union,
1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index.
Yankev Kahan
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