Tuesday 23 April 2019

SHMUEL-RIFOEL KRINSKI (SIMON RAPHAEL KRINSKY)


SHMUEL-RIFOEL KRINSKI (SIMON RAPHAEL KRINSKY) (b. January 1, 1899)[1]
            He was born in Horodok, Bialystok Province.  He studied in yeshivas in Bialystok, Slonim, and Slabodka, as well as in the Grodno Hebrew pedagogical course of study.  From 1920 he was manager of a public school in the land of Israel.  In 1923 he emigrated to the United States.  He received ordination into the rabbinate.  He administered the Talmud Torahs of Hudson, Wilmington, and later a reform school of the latter.  He debuted in print in 1919 with a sketch in Dos naye lebn (The new life) in Bialystok.  He also published: a series of impressions of pioneer life in Di naye varhayt (The new truth); poems, stories, and Zionist articles in Dos idishe folk (The Jewish people), Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), Yidishes tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper), Amerikaner (American), Tsuzamen (Together), Keneder odler (Canadian eagle), and Byalistoker shtime (Voice of Bialystok); and he edited The Jewish Voice in Wilmington.  His books include: Der id un zayn traditsye (The Jew and his traditions), essays (New York: Sh. Drukerman, 1926), 93 pp.; Faranene un gevezene, lider un dertseylungen (Available and past, poems and stories) (Wilmington, 1936), 192 pp.  In 1942 he published a volume of Hebrew poetry: Perurim, shirim (Breadcrumbs, poems) (Wilmington), 93 pp.  He also wrote under the pen name: Shimoni.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Meravya, 1967); Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (March 10, 1936).
Leyzer-Rifoel Malachi


[1] His surname and date of birth follow Krinski’s autobiography, as well as Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Meravya, 1967).  According to Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3, the date should be October 3, 1896 and his name Krimski, but all of his books bear the name Krinski.

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