TSVI
EKRONI (b. September 19, 1911)
The Hebraized name of Tsvi (Hersh)
Akerman, he was born in Ploieşti, Bessarabia. He was
secretary of the Zionist Organization in the Belz region of Bessarabia and
leader of the Jewish National Fund and of the central committee of pioneers in
Bessarabia. He edited the newspaper Erd
un arbet (Land and work) in Kishinev and a member of the
editorial board of Frayhayt (Freedom)
in Czernowitz and of Unzer tsayt (Our
time) in Kishinev. He published poems
and stories in recognized publications and in: Yidisher
almanakh groys-rumenyen (Jewish almanac of Great Romania)
in Bucharest, Farn idishn kind (For the
Jewish child) in Kishinev, and elsewhere. He made aliya to the land of Israel in 1933.
Source:
D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the
pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol.11 (Tel Aviv, 1961), pp. 3741-42.
Yankev Kahan
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