AVROM
RUVN PINKUSEVITSH (1898-July 1, 1945)
He was born in Petrikov (Pietrykaŭ),
Poland [now, Belarus]. He studied
medicine. He was a representative of the
Bund in the city council and on the Jewish community council. He was a cofounder of the Jewish school
curriculum in Pietrykaŭ. From 1916
he contributed work to: Lebns-fragn
(Life issues), Naye folkstsaytung (New
people’s newspaper), and Lodzher veker
(Lodz alarm); and he served as co-editor of Pyetrikover
veker (Pietrykaŭ alarm), among others.
He also published poetry. His
translation of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey from the Greek originals (prepared
for publication in 1939) was lost during the war years. When the Nazis invaded and occupied Poland,
he fled to Russian terrain, and during the war he served as a military doctor
on the front against the Nazis. He died
of typhus in Moscow.
Sources:
Doyres bundistn (Generations of
Bundists), vol. 2 (New York, 1956), p. 273, with a bibliography; Khayim Leyb
Fuks, in Fun noentn over (New York) 3
(1957), p. 259.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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