MOYSHE
ELSHTEYN
He came from Lodz and worked as a
weaver. He published poetry in Lodz
publications and also in the collection Varshever
shriftn (Warsaw writings) (1927).
His poems had an impact on Yiddish literary circles in Lodz. He also a roused a sensation in the Lodz
press for his public opposition to the well-known Lodz textile magnate Osher Kohn. With Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland, he
was in Bialystok. His subsequent fate
remains unknown.
Sources:
N. Taykh, in Unzer lodzh (Our Lodz)
(Buenos Aires, 1954); Y. Goldkorn, in Zayn
(New York) (May 1962); Goldkorn, Lodzher
portretn, umgekumene yidishe shrayber un tipn (Lodz portraits, murdered Yiddish writers and types) (Tel Aviv, 1963), pp. 168-73.
Benyomen Elis
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