PELTE TSUKER (PIERRE CUKIER)

PELTE TSUKER (PIERRE CUKIER)

            He hailed from Poland.  Before WWII he studied in Leipzig.  From the late 1930s he was studying in Paris.  He survived concentration camp.  He was the author of: A buket blumen, poemen (A bouquet of flowers, poems) (Leipzig, 1923); Fartrunkente royzn, noveln (Drunk roses, novellas) (Leipzig, 1925); Dem likht antkegn, drame (Opposite the light, a drama) (Leipzig, 1929); Kemnits, zaksn, mayn tsveyt foterland, roman (Chemnitz, Saxony, my second fatherland, a novel) (Paris, 1936); Der kamf geyt vayter, tragedye (The fight continues, a tragedy) (Paris, 1955), 134 pp.; Paksit, tragedye in dray aktn (Paxit, a tragedy in three acts) (Paris, 1960), 125 pp.; Shloymele, revi in 12 bilder (Little Solomon, a revue in twelve images) (Paris, 1972), 38 pp., a compilation of folksongs with notations.

Ezra Lahad

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 458.