YISROEL
SOLTS (b. 1888)
He was born in Belz,
Bessarabia. In his youth he moved with
his parents to the Jewish colony of Alexandria, where he attended religious
elementary school and public school. In 1907
he came to Argentina and settled in a Baron Hirsch colony. For many years he was a teacher in the Jewish
colony schools—later he entered the Tsisho (Jewish School Organization) schools
in Argentina. From 1918 he was a regular
contributor to Kolonist-kooperator
(Colonist cooperative) in Entre Rios, Buenos Aires, in which he published
articles and features. He contributed
to: Argentiner beymelekh (Little
Argentinian trees) and Dos fraye vort
(The free word), among other serials, in Buenos Aires; Fraye tribune (Free tribune) and Frayer gedank (Free thought) in Paris; as well as the Yiddish press
in Uruguay, Brazil, and Mexico. He was
last living in Buenos Aires.
Sources:
Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo
(Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), see index; Kehile-arkhiv fun prese oysshnitn
(Community archive of press clippings) (Buenos Aires, 1959-1962); information
from Y. Horn in Buenos Aires.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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