KHAYIM RABIN (b. January 15, 1911)
He was
born in Lanovits (Lanivtsi), Volhynia. He studied in public school and yeshiva. He graduated from the Poznanski’s Teachers’ Seminary
in Warsaw. From 1935 he was living in
the land of Israel. He published many
books in Hebrew—such as Hayabeshet haavuda
(The lost continent), six children’s books, among other items. In Yiddish he debuted at age sixteen in Kremenitser shtime (Voice of Kremenits),
and he also wrote for Rovner tsaytung
(Rovno newspaper) and Haynt (Today)
in Warsaw. He edited a series of
remembrance volumes for: Voronove, Vishograd (Visegrad), Vishnevits (Vishnevets),
Langovits, Shumsk, and elsewhere—all in Yiddish and Hebrew.
Ruvn Goldberg
Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 494.
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