YISROEL-LEYB SHATSKI (February 6, 1884-1936?)
He was a
journalist and the author of stories, born in Brestovits (Berestovitsa),
Grodno district. Until age twelve he
studied with itinerant schoolteachers, later graduating from a Russian Jewish
public school. He worked as a teacher
and bookkeeper. In 1903 he moved to
Bialystok. He wrote articles for Golos belostoka (Voice of Bialystok) and
Echa Grodzieńskie (Echoes of Grodno),
using the pen name L. A. Klad. From 1921
he was publishing stories, sketches, and impressions in the Bialystok daily
newspapers Dos naye leben (The new
life) and Der idisher kuryer (The
Jewish courier), using the pen name Y. L. Levko, as well as such pseudonyms as
Peysekh Shin, Y. Shvayg, and Tuvye Shpilke.
He co-edited: Byalistoker almanakh
(Bialystok almanac) (1931), Byalistoker leksikon
(Bialystok handbook) (Bialystok, 1935), Unzer
veg (Our way), Ekspres (Express),
and Velt-shpigl (World mirror). In Vilna Tsayt
(Time), he published a novel entitled Der
goldener tseylem (The golden cross).
His comedy Yidishe glikn (Jewish
joys) was staged in 1934 in Bialystok.
In book form: Kornblumen, a zamlung
peysazhn un noveln (Cornflowers, a collection of landscapes and stories)
(Bialystok:
M. Pruzshansḳi, 1935),
115 pp.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Byalistoker
leksikon (Bialystok handbook) (Bialystok, 1935).
Berl Cohen
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