AYZIK-BER
EKERMAN
He was born in a small town in Podlasie. He received a religious-Hassidic
education. He was a regular contributor
to: Dos yidishe togblat (The Jewish
daily newspaper), Der id (The Jew),
and Yugend bleter (Youth sheets) in
Warsaw; Unzer veg (Our way) in
Siedlce; Beys yankev zhurnal (Beys-Yankev
journal) in Lodz; and edited Idishe lebn
(Jewish life) in Warsaw. He served as
secretary to the first Orthodox deputies to the Sejm in Poland. He was killed during WWII by the Germans in
the Warsaw Ghetto.
Sources:
M. Mozes, in Der poylisher yid,
yearbook (1944); Yidishe shriftn,
anthology (Lodz, 1946); Z. Segalovitsh, Tlomatske
13, fun farbrente nekhtn (13 Tłomackie St., of zealous nights) (Buenos Aires: Central Association of
Polish Jews in Argentina, 1946), p. 154; Dr. Hillel Zaydman, Tog-bukh fun varshever geto (Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto) (Buenos Aires, 1947), pp. 35,
110, 278; M. Turkov, Di letste fun a
groysn dor (The last of a great
generation) (Buenos Aires, 1954), p. 55; B. Kutsher, Geven
amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955); M. Prager, in Fun noentn over (New York) 2 (1956), pp.
454, 472; Entsiklopediya shel galuyot (Encyclopedia
of the Diaspora), vol. 2 (Warsaw, 1959), pp. 391, 560.
Yankev Kahan
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