LEYZER[-LEYB] PODRYATSHIK (ELIEZER
PODRIACHIK) (September 23, 1914-April 10, 2000)
He was 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. Over the 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. His
first works were published in Tshernovitser
bleter (Czernowitz sheets). He was
regular contributor to Sovetish heymland
(Soviet homeland), from when it commenced publication in 1961, in which he had
charge of a section, “Notistn afn kalendar” (Notes on the calendar) concerned
with writers and works. 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). He also wrote on literature for the newspaper
Eynikeyt (Unity) in Moscow. He had in manuscript a series of articles on
language, history, and criticism. He
also penned a preface and prepared to have published Der Nister’s novel Fun finftn yor (From the year 1905); the
preface appeared in Sovetish heymland
(January-February 1964). From 1951 he
was living in Riga, Latvia. In 1971 made
aliya to the state of Israel. From 1972
he was a lecturer on Jewish music 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, as 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.
Sources:
Di goldene keyt (Tel Aviv) 44 (1962),
p. 208; Y. Burg, in Folks-shtime
(Warsaw) (October 6, 1964); B. Ts. Goldberg, in Tog-morgn-zhurnal (New York) (October 30, 1964); Elye (Elias)
Shulman, in Tsukunft (New York)
(January 1965), pp. 34-46; Y. Radinov, in Morgn-frayhayt
(New York) (April 5, 1965); F. Lerner, in Di
prese (Buenos Aires) (October 15, 1965).
Benyomen Elis
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), cols. 422-23; 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. 276.]
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