KHAYIM KENIGER

KHAYIM KENIGER (August 13, 1917-1993)

            He was born in Warsaw.  He attended religious elementary school and a Polish high school.  In late 1939 he fled to Soviet Russia, and there he was deported to a camp.  In 1945 he returned to Poland, and in 1947 he left for Paris.  He published poetry in Polish journals.  From 1973 he has been publishing poems in: Kheshbn (Accounting) in Los Angeles, Tsukunft (Future) in New York, Yerusholaimer almanakh (Jerusalem almanac), and Bay zikh (On one’s own) in Tel Aviv.  In book form: Fun fir zaytn (From four sides), poems (Paris, 1984), 144 pp.; In shetekh fun tsayt (In the domain of time) (Paris, 1990), 144 pp.  He died in Paris.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 489.