AVROM SHTARK (1886-August 1970)
He was
born in Volbrom (Wolbrom), Poland. He
studied in yeshiva until age eighteen.
In his early twenties he came to the land of Israel and was a cofounder
of the Communist Party. He later
returned to Poland and was active in Communist work. Disappointed with Communism, in 1959 he
settled down back in Israel. He wrote an
autobiographical novel about Jewish life in Poland in the 1930s, translated
from the Yiddish manuscript into Hebrew by Aryeh Shental as Aḥai bagdu kemo-naḥal (My brethren have dealt
deceitfully as a brook) (Kiryat-Tiv’on, 1972), 268 pp. This was thought to be the first part of a trilogy. He died in Kiryat Tiv’on, Israel.
Sources: N. List, in Davar
(Tel Aviv) (Tevet 3 [= December 8], 1972); A. Perlis, in Al hamishmar (Tel Aviv) (Shevat 30 [= February 2], 1973).
Berl Cohen
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