HIRSH-MEYER KIRSHENBOYM (February 21, 1891-January 21, 1943)[1]
He was
born in Lipsk, Poland. He studied in
religious elementary school and yeshiva.
He made his way to Canada. He
debuted in print with a sketch in Unzer
leben (Our life) in Warsaw, and he contributed to Warsaw’s Di naye velt (The new world) and Moment (Moment), and later primarily to
Canadian Yiddish publications. He wrote
articles and reviews on Yiddish theater.
Over the years 1915-1931, he was a regular contributor to Toronto’s
daily newspaper Idisher zhurnal
(Jewish journal). In it he published the
novels: Di khsidishe tokhter (The
Hassidic daughter), Di umshuldike (The
innocent), and Der farbrekher (The criminal)
which was dramatized and staged. His two
unpublished one-act plays, Vi azoy lebn
(How to live) and Der antoyshter man
(The disappointed man), were also performed on stage. He died in Toronto.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Zalmen Zilbertsvayg, Leksikon fun yidishn
teater
(Handbook of the Yiddish theater), vol. 4 (New York, 1963); Seyfer radom (Volume for Radom) (Tel Aviv:
Irgun yotse radom beyisrael,
1961), p. 242.
Berl Cohen
[1] Zalmen Reyzen gives a birth year of 1892; Zalmen Zilbertsvayg
give 1889. Our date follows Kirshenboym’s
autobiography.
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