BERL KORALNIK

BERL KORALNIK (September 29, 1893-May 5, 1959)

            He was born in Uman, Ukraine, the brother of Avrom Koralnik.  He received a Jewish and a general education.  He was an active Zionist.  In 1914 he began his journalistic activities with the Kiev Yiddish newspapers.  In 1924 he came to the land of Israel, where for twenty-five years he was the representative for ITA (Jewish Telegraphic Agency).  He was a correspondent for Tog (Day) in New York and other Yiddish newspapers abroad.  He died in Jerusalem.

Sources: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Merḥavya, 1967); D. Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 11 (Tel Aviv, 1961), p. 3767.

Ruvn Goldberg

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 478.