Thursday, 15 August 2019

HENEKH SHTEYN (HENRY STEIN)


HENEKH SHTEYN (HENRY STEIN) (b. August 14, 1910)
            He was born in Rogeve (Raguva), Lithuania.  He graduated from a Hebrew public school and studied Tanakh and Talmud with his grandfather.  In 1929 he joined his father in Baltimore.  He wrote articles, stories, and poetry in: Idishe shtime (Jewish voice), Folksblat (People’s newspaper), and Dos vort (The word) in Kovno; and Tog-morgn-zhurnal (Day-morning journal), Der amerikander (The American), and Algemeyne zhurnal (General journal) in New York; as well as several articles in the anthology Lite (Lithuania) (New York, 1951; Tel Aviv, 1965).  In book form: Af beyde zaytn atlantik, poemen un baladn (On both sides of the Atlantic, poems and ballads) (Baltimore, 1937), 46 pp.  He published dramas in English.  His pen names include: A. Rogover and Khanekh ben Nokhum.

Source: Jewish Times (Baltimore) (June 27, 1975).
Berl Cohen


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