Wednesday 4 April 2018

LEYB STRONGIN


LEYB STRONGIN (d. 1967)
            He was born in Byelorussia.  He was arrested in 1949, later rehabilitated.  He was a member of the editorial collective of Eynikeyt (Unity) over the years 1942-1948 and of the literary-artistic almanac Heymland (Homeland) (1947-1948)—both in Moscow.  For many years he was director of Emes Publishers.  He died in Moscow.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 404.


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