OSHER
PERLMAN (b. 1895)
He was born in Warsaw, Poland. Until the 1920s he was a member of the
central leadership of the Folks-partey (People’s party). He was later active in the Communist
movement, principally in Gezerd (All-Union
Association for the Agricultural Settlement of Jewish Workers in the USSR) in
Poland, and a fervent proponent of the Soviet Union. In 1934 he organized and directed an illegal trip
to Russia and Birobidzhan. From this
trip he produced: Birobidzhan, shilderung
fun a rayze (Birobidzhan, description of a voyage) (Warsaw, 1934), 256 pp.—it
also appeared in a separate edition in 1934 in Buenos Aires with a forward by
the author (143 pp.). Because of a court
sentence, he departed from Poland illegally for Russia in late 1935. During the show trials of 1937 he was
arrested and sent for many years to a Soviet camp in the distant North. He miraculously survived, and was freed in
1955, ailing and broken, and he became a devout, religious Jew. He was among the main contributors to Moment (Moment) in Warsaw (1920-1934),
and he was a member of the editorial board of Dos folk (The people) in Warsaw.
He contributed as well to: Der
nayer gedank (The new idea) in Vilna; Iberboy
(Reconstruction) in Warsaw (1933-1935); Velt
iberblik (World survey) in Warsaw (1935); and a number of illegal Communist
publications in Warsaw, Lodz, and Lemberg.
Over the years 1935-1937, he was an internal contributor to Emes (Truth) in Moscow, and he wrote for
Birobidzhaner shtern (Birobidzhan
star) and Oktyabr (October) in Minsk,
among other serials.
Sources:
Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo
(Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), see index; Yidisher gezelshaftlekher leksikon
(Jewish community handbook) (Warsaw, 1939), p. 265; Z. Segalovitsh, Tlomatske 13, fun farbrente nekhtn (13 Tłomackie St., of zealous
nights) (Buenos Aires: Central Association of Polish Jews in Argentina, 1946),
p. 107; Khayim Shoshkes, in Tog-morgn-zhurnal
(New York) (July 7, 1956); August 31, 1958).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Additional
information from: 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. 284.]
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