PINYE SHTEYNBERG (1916-1942)
He was a
poet, born in the Jewish colony of Berezovke (Berezovka), Odessa region,
Ukraine. He graduated from the local
Jewish school and later the teachers’ institute in Odessa, and he then returned
to Berezovka where he worked as a teacher, secretary of the local committee of
Komyug (Young Communist League), and director of the middle school. While still a pupil, he published poems,
stories, and notes. In the literary
studio run initially by the poet and playwright Ayzik Huberman and later by the
critic and prose author Irme Druker, he was considered one of the more gifted. In March 1942 he left for the front in the
war. He fell on the battlefield that
June. His works include a poetry cycle “Ernst
af di pleytses” (Seriousness on the shoulders), in the anthology Lire (Lyre) (Moscow, 1985).
Chaim Beider, Leksikon
fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish
writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York:
Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), pp. 383-84.
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