YOYSEF
ERENKRANTS (ca. 1905-ca. 1958)
He was born in the town of Vasilkovits
(Vasyl’kivtsi), eastern Galicia. His
father was a Hebrew teacher. On his
mother’s side he was related to Velvl Zbarzher.
After graduating in Bucharest as a medical doctor, he soon went to the
Soviet Union, before returning to Romania.
During WWII he contributed to Tshernovitser
bleter (Czernowitz sheets) and Ikuf-bleter
(IKUF sheets). He died of tuberculosis
in Romania.
Sources:
Shloyme Bikl, in Idisher kemfer (New
York) (Passover, 1961); Bikl, Rumenye
(Romania) (Buenos Aires, 1961), pp. 114-15.
Leyb Vaserman
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