YANKEV
NAYMARK (b. August 21, 1881)
He was born in Torne (Tarnów),
Galicia, into a Hassidic family. Until
age eighteen he studied in his synagogue study hall, and with a private tutor
he learned German. Early on he began to
write poetry. Over the years 1908-1911,
he published poems and feature pieces in: Togblat
(Daily newspaper), Yudishe arbayter
(Jewish worker), and Yudishe interesante
blat (Jewish interesting newspaper)—in Lemberg; Tog (Day) and Yudishe
ilustrirte tsaytung (Jewish illustrated newspaper) in Cracow; Folks-fraynd (Friend of the people) in
Sanok; and G. Bader and M. Frostig’s Kalendarn
(Calendars) and Shapiro’s Yudishe
zamlbukher (Yiddish anthologies).
From 1911 he lived on his own in the village of Kiskunhalas, southern Hungary,
and there he died during WWII.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2; Dr.
M. Naygreshl and Sh. Y. Imber, in Di
tsukunft (New York) (February 1950); Torne,
kiem un khurbn fun a yidisher shtot (Tarnów, the existence and destruction
of a Jewish city) (Tel Aviv, 1954).
Yankev Kahan
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