YEKHEZKL (CHARLES) FELDMAN (b. January 27, 1895)
He was
born in Lublin, Poland. He received a
traditional Jewish education. At age
thirteen he emigrated with his parents to the United States and was employed as
an X-ray technician in the state hospital on Ellis Island. He was a member of the executive of the
Jewish cultural association, and he was active in the radical movement. He taught the art of painting and held
showings of his own works. He gave
lectures on art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He contributed poetry, essays, reviews of
art, and propaganda articles in: Forverts
(Forward) and Fraye arbeter-shtime
(Free voice of labor) in New York; and in Arbayter-fraynd
(Friend of labor) in London. He edited
the sole issue to appear of Di naye
renasans (The new renaissance) in New York (1921), with contributions by
Moyshe Nadir, M. L. Halperin, and others.
He translated poetry by Max Dauthendey, Peter Hille, and Richard Dehmel. He was last living in New York.
Source: Shmuel Niger, in Tog (New York) (April 3, 1921).
Yankev Kahan
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