Friday, 29 June 2018
AVROM PAT
WILLIAM POKHOTSKI
RIFOEL POZNER (RAPHAEL POSNER)
Thursday, 28 June 2018
SOLOMON POZNER
NOKHUM POZNER
YEKHIEL-MEYER POZNER (MEYER POSNER)
SHMUEL-AVROM POZNANSKI (SAMUEL ABRAHAM POZNAŃSKI)
KHAYIM LEYB POZNANSKI
KHAYKE POZNANSKI
ITSHE-MEYER POZNANSKI
(YISROEL-)ARYE POZI (ARNOLD POSY)
PAULA R.
ELIEZER PAVIR
P. PAVIN
P. PAVIN
He was a playwright
and journalist, born in Poland. He was a
leather worker who took part in the illegal revolutionary movement. In 1930 he departed for the Soviet Union. He wrote journalistic articles and was the
author of a one-act play, Farn toyer
(For the goal), “dedicated to the thousands of revolutionaries languishing in
Polish prisons” (Moscow: Emes, 1932), 16 pp.
Further information remains unknown.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Additional information from: 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), pp. 276-77.]
SHLOYME PAV
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
LEYZER PODRYATSHIK (ELIEZER PODRIACHIK)
LEYZER PODRYATSHIK
(ELIEZER PODRIACHIK) (September 23, 1914-April 10, 2000)
He was a literary
scholar, born in the village of Komerov, near Sekuren (Sokyryany), Bessarabia
(now, Ukraine). He studied in religious elementary schools and yeshivas. He graduated
from the Hebrew teachers’ seminary in Czernowitz. In the early 1930s he worked
in a colony for school children together with Leyzer Shteynbarg; he was later a
teacher in Jewish schools in Romania. His first works were articles and scholarly
research pieces, published in Tshernovitser
bleter (Czernowitz sheets)—among them, “Der historiker un folklorist fun di
romenishe yidn” (The historian and folklorist among Romanian Jewry) about
Moyshe Shvartsman; “Shoyel Ginzburg un di historyografye fun di yidn in
rusland” (Saul Ginzburg and the historiography of Jews in Russia); and
“Literatur un geshikhte” (Literature and history); as well as poems and
critical treatments—and other serials. Over the war years 1941-1944, he lived
as a refugee in Soviet Central Asia. Later, for a time he worked as pedagogical
director in the Moscow Yiddish Theater Studio, where he gave lectures for
students on the Yiddish language and Yiddish literature. He also wrote on
literature for the newspaper Eynikeyt
(Unity) in Moscow. From 1951 he was living in Riga, Latvia. He was regular
contributor to Sovetish heymland
(Soviet homeland), from when it commenced publication in 1961, in which he had
charge of the sections, “Notitsn afn kalendar” (Notes on the calendar) and
“Notitsn fun a yidishn bukonist” (Notes from a Jewish second-hand bookseller) concerned
with writers and works. From 1965 he published longer essays on the history of
Yiddish literature and language. He also penned a preface and prepared to have
published Der Nister’s unpublished manuscript Fun finftn yor (From the year 1905); the preface appeared in Sovetish heymland (January-February
1964); in Sovetish heymland 8 (1965),
he published an important work entitled: “Tsu der frage vegn der geshikhte fun
der yidisher literatur” (On a question concerning the history of Yiddish
literature). In 1971 made aliya to the state of Israel, and from 1972 he was a
lecturer on Yiddish literature at Tel Aviv University. He placed a major piece
of scholarship on the writings of Yehuda-Leyb Gamzu in Pinkes far der forshung fun der yidisher literatur un prese (Records of research on Yiddish
literature and the press) (New York, 1974) and annotations with
bio-bibliographic lists to Gamzu’s Yetsirot
genuzot (Concealed writings) (Tel Aviv, 1977). His books would include: Itsik manger, der dikhter vos iz dergangen
fun gro biz blo (Itsik Manger, the poet who went from gray to blue)
(Ramat-Gan: Biblus, 1977), 23 pp.; In
profil fun tsaytn (In profile of the times) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1978),
354 pp.; Shmuesn mit andere un mit zikh,
zikhroynes un rayoynes (Chats with others and with myself, memoirs and
thoughts) (Tel Aviv: H. Leivick Publ., 1984), 247 pp.; Bilder fun der yidisher literatur (Images from Yiddish literature)
(Tel Aviv: H. Leivick Publ., 1987), 121 pp.; Lid un tfile (Poem and prayer) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1989), 182
pp. He received the Manger Prize for 1984; and he was a member of the jury for
the Hofshteyn Prize, and a recipient of it in 1989. Among his pen names: L.
Dinesman, L. Yitskhaki, A. Basarabyer, A. Tshernovitser, A. Yisroel, A.
Sekurener, A. Poda, Leyzer Nekhes, and Der Bukinist.
SHIYE PODRUZHNIK
AVROM PODLISHEVSKI
SHLOYME PODOLEVSKI (SOL PODOLEFSKY)
SHLOYME PODOLEANU
SH. PODOLSKI
MOYSHE PODOLSKI
PEYSEKH PODOLAK
BERL PADOVITSH
YOKHONEN POGREBINSKI
MORTKHE POGORELSKI
Tuesday, 26 June 2018
BERL ERKES
BERL ERKES (1902-December 1, 1933)
He was a prose
author, born in Chernobyl, Kiev district, Ukraine. During the Civil War in
Soviet Russia, he served in the Red Army and participated in the fighting. He
fell into the hands of a band of Petliura’s followers, who tortured him
severely and crushed his lungs. Over the course of his short life, he suffered
for many years from tuberculosis. In the first half of the 1920s, he served in
the first security organs of state, the Cheka and later in the G.P.U. [both
agencies of the Soviet secret police]. He then moved into journalistic work. For
a short time, he was secretary for the Kharkov daily newspaper Der shtern (The star), and from 1925 he
wrote feature pieces and stories for it. The main topic of his stories and journalistic
work was the fight against bandits during the civil war, as well as Soviet
construction and anti-religious subject matter. He also published in the
Kharkov serial, Shlakhtn (Battles). He
died of tuberculosis in Yalta in the Crimea where he had gone to recuperate.
His books include: Faynt (Hate), stories (Kharkov: State Publ., 1930), 236 pp.; Der 16ter partey-tsuzamenfor un di ratn-boyung (The sixteenth Party congress and Soviet construction) (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk: Central Publishers, 1930), 14 pp.; Fun hinter dem paroykhes, di kontr-revolyutsyonere tetikayt fun di yidishe klerikaln (From behind the curtains, the counter-revolutionary activities of the Jewish clerics) (Moscow: Central Publishers, 1930), 46 pp.; Shedikers (Destroyers), stories (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian State Publishers for National Minorities, 1932), 56 pp.; In shpinvebs (In cobweb), stories (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian State Publishers for National Minorities, 1932), 46 pp.; Ven dos dorf shloft, dertseylung (When the village sleeps, a story) (Minsk: Byelorussian State Publishers, 1932), 26 pp.; Frontn, roman (Fronts, a novel) (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian State Publishers for National Minorities, 1932), 224 pp.; Der partsef fun klasn-soyne (The face of a class enemy) (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian State Publishers for National Minorities, 1932), 51 pp.; Banakht af der grenets (At the border at night) (Moscow: Emes, 1933), 172 pp.; Dertseylungen (Stories) (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian State Publishers for National Minorities, 1934), 141 pp.; Yugnt in kamf (Young people in the struggle), stories for children (Kharkov-Kiev, 1934), 88 pp.; Kamf (Fight), stories (Kharkov: Literatur un kunst, 1934), 129 pp.; Der kamf doyert (The fight goes on), a novel (Moscow: Emes, 1937), 310 pp. From Russian he also translated works of Lenin and others. He wrote under such pen names as B. Lifshes.
Sources: Arn Makagon, in Prolit
(August-September 1930); obituary, in Der
shtern (Kharkov) (December 14, 1933); A. Hindes, in Der shtern (December 15, 1933); Sh. Klitenik, Verk un shrayber (Works
and writers) (Moscow, 1935); Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot,
1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem,
1961), see index.
Benyomen Elis
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 421; and 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. 275.]