ARYE TSIBULE

ARYE TSIBULE (1905-September 8, 1939)

            He was born in Sokolov (Sokołów), Shedlets (Siedlce) region, Poland.  He studied in religious elementary school and the yeshiva of the Sokolover Rebbe, and he acquired a reputation as a prodigy.  He studied secular subject matter on his own.  Over the years 1922-1933, he lived in Warsaw.  He supported himself giving private Hebrew lessons, while at the same time he was active in the pioneer youth movement, initially in “Hitaḥdut” (Unity) and later in the Zionist-socialist Labor Zionist party and in their Jewish labor unions.  From 1933 until WWII, he lived in Lodz.  He served as secretary of the “Meat Workers’ Union” in the Lodz organization “Zionist-socialist Labor Zionist.”  He debuted in print with feature pieces in Folk un land (People and country) in Warsaw (1925), later contributing to: Bafrayung (Liberation), Arbeter shtime (Workers’ voice), and Dos vort (The word) in Warsaw.  In the main he wrote features, articles, and impressions drawn from workers’ lives.  He was also a regular Lodz correspondent (using the pen name “Kh. Artsi”).  He was killed during a German air attack.

Sources: Perets Granatshteyn, Mayn khorev shtetl sokolov (My destroyed town of Sokolov) (Buenos Aires, 1946), pp. 103-8; Khayim Leyb Fuks, in Fun noentn over (New York) 3 (1957), p. 246; N. Kantorovitsh, in Fun noentn over (New York) 3 (1957), p. 315.

Khayim Leyb Fuks