BERL
REZNIKOVITSH (b. 1903)
He was born in Smilg (Smilgiai),
Lithuania. He was among the first Jewish
pioneers in Uruguay, where he arrived in 1924.
In 1926 he began publishing (with Moyshe Orzukh) the weekly newspaper Unzer lebn (Our life), and in 1931 the
first Yiddish daily newspaper in Uruguay: Der
tog (The day)—both in Montevideo.
Sh. Starozhevski
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 511.
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