AVROM
PODLISHEVSKI (December 30, 1863-July 18, 1930)
He was born in Ostrov, near Minsk,
Byelorussia. In 1877 he settled in
Warsaw. He was a well-known Zionist and
community leader in Russia of old, and later in Poland he was a close friend of
Y. L. Perets. In 1902 he began writing
(under the pen name Moaḥ)
for Hatsfira (The siren) in Warsaw—he
was co-editor 1912-1915. In Yiddish he
published articles, stories, and memoirs in Perets’s Yudishe biblyotek (Yiddish library) in 1894 and in Der yud (The Jew) in Warsaw-Cracow in
1905. He wrote a long story entitled “Moyshe
der alter meshores” (Moyshe the old servant), under the name Avrom
Volfzon. Over the years 1912-1930, he contributed
work to Haynt (Today) in Warsaw. He died in Otwock, near Warsaw. His book Memuarn
(Memoirs) was published in Warsaw in 1931 (198 pp.), with articles about him
written by Chaim Weitzman, Nokhum Sokolov, Yitskhok Grinboym, and others.
Sources:
N. Mayzil, Perets, lebn un shafn (Perets,
life and work) (Vilna, 1931), p. 125; Y. Shatski, in Yivo-bleter (New York) 38 (1946), p. 174; Yitskhok Grinboym, Fun mayn dor (Of my generation) (Tel
Aviv, 1959), pp. 237-42; Grinboym, Pene
hador (The face of the generation) (Tel Aviv, 1959), pp. 187-92.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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