MORTKHE KERMAN

MORTKHE KERMAN (1858-January 5, 1954)

            He was born in Karlin, Byelorussia.  He studied in religious elementary schools.  He was a tailor by profession.  In 1935 he made aliya to the land of Israel.  In his old age, he wrote Mayne zikhroynes, hundert yor pinsk (My memoirs, a century of Pinsk) (Haifa, 1950), 225 pp.  He died in Haifa.

Source: B. Hofman (Tsvien), Toyznt yor pinsk (1,000 years of Pinsk) (New York, 1941), see index.

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