AVROM KREYNER

AVROM KREYNER (April 15, 1920-November 15, 1972)

            He was born in Tishevits (Tyszowce), Poland.  He was a Polish Jewish poet who used the name Arnold Słucki.  He descended from a family influenced by the Jewish Enlightenment.  He studied in the Warsaw Tachkemoni.  He published twenty volumes of poetry and translations into Polish.  In 1968 he came from Poland to Israel, and around 1971 he moved to Germany where he died.  In the 1930s, he published poems in: Literarishe tribune (Literary tribune) and Folks-tsaytung (People’s newspaper) in Lodz, and Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves) in Warsaw.  He prepared an anthology for publication, Fun perets biz sutskever (From Perets to Sutzkever), but he did not see it through to publication.

Source: Di goldene keyt (Tel Aviv) (1969), p. 60.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 491-92.