DOVID ORZUKH

DOVID ORZUKH (1909-June 16, 1981)

            He was born in Vilna.  For many years he served as editor of the daily newspaper Folksblat (People’s newspaper) in Montevideo, which is where he died.

KHIL ARONSON

KHIL ARONSON (1896-late 1966)

            For many years he wrote about artistic matters for Naye prese (New press) in Paris.  Among his books: Bilder un geshtaltn fun monparnas (Pictures and images from Montparnasse) (Paris, 1963), 656 pp., with 324 reproductions of paintings and scultures.  He died in Paris.

TSEMEKH-MOYSHE HALPERIN

TSEMEKH-MOYSHE HALPERIN (November 9, 1919-1988)

            He was born in Raseyn (Raseiniai), Lithuania, and he studied in a Hebrew public school, in a Tarbut high school, and in a yeshiva.  In 1936 he made aliya to Israel where he belonged to various Zionist groups and parties.  In 1941 he joined the Jewish Brigade.  In 1946 he came to Germany on assignment for the United Zionist Revisionist Party, organized the Revisionist movement in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen and throughout the entire British zone in Germany.  In 1949 he studied journalism and history at Munich University and received his doctorate.  He returned to Israel in 1951 and became a teacher in the municipal high school of Tiberias and from 1953 its director.

            He first published in 1939 an article in Haboker (This morning), and he later placed pieces in: Vidergeburt (Regeneration) and Yeshurin (Jerusalem) in Munich; Undzer front (Our front) and Vokhnblat (Weekly newspaper) in Bergen-Belsen; Undzer tsil (Our goal) in Linz, Austria; Beys yisroel (House of Israel) in Buenos Aires; and Afrikaner yidishe tsaytung (African Jewish newspaper) in Johannesburg.  In Hebrew he published in: Haboker, Haarets (The land), Hamashkif (The spectator), Ḥerut (Freedom), Yediot aḥaronot (Latest news), and Ḥayil haam (The people’s corps), organ of the Jewish Brigade, among others.  He served as editorial secretary of Niv hatotḥan (Words from the gunners), organ of the artillerymen in the Jewish Brigade at the front (1943), and editor of Had hasolela (Echo of the battery), organ of the Brigade in Belgium (1946).  While in Munich, he edited (1948-1950) the Revisionist weekly Undzer velt (Our world).  Among his books in Yiddish: Vegvayzer (Guide) (Munish, 1949), 104 pp.—ten treatises on Hebrew writers and Zionist personalities.  He contributed as well to Hayfe-yorbukh far literatur un kunst (Haifa yearbook for literature and art) and Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Tel Aviv.  Other books and pamphlets were all in Hebrew.  Among his pen names: Adyoli, Kahane, Maḥats, Meri, Nudi, Nets, Sambodi, Tsits, Roni, Raseyner, and others.  From 1942 he adopted the Hebrew family name Tsamriyon.

Sources: L. Shalit, in Undzer velt (Munich) (June 10, 1949); A. Abrahams, in Undzer velt (June 15, 1949); Y. Khrust, in Undzer velt (June 24, 1949); M. Tshemni, in Tsienistishe shtime (Munich) (September 23, 1949); Y. Frenkl, in Tsienistishe shtime (October 18, 1949); Frenkl, in Jüdische Wochenschrift (Buenos Aires) (September 25, 1949); Jewish Echo (Glasgow) (October 11, 1949); Jüdische Rundschau (Basel) (November 1949); Y. Tiger, in Di tsayt (London) (December 14, 1949).

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 207.]

YOYSEF ARONOF (JOSEPH ARONOFF)

YOYSEF ARONOF (JOSEPH ARONOFF) (March 15, 1882-May 18, 1974)

            He was born in Kherson, Russia.  As a Russian soldier, he escaped from the front against Japan in 1904 and came to Canada.  He wrote poems and stories for Keneder odler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal and Idisher zhurnal (Jewish journal) in Toronto.  Among his books: Gezangen un dertseylungen (Songs and stories) (Montreal, 1946), 73 pp.; A gebet tsu der yu-en (A plea to the United Nations) (Montreal, 1955), 126 pp.; Der mentsh un di levone (The man and the moon) (Montreal, 1959), 26 pp.  He died in Montreal.

Source: Kh. L. Fuks, Hundert yor yidishe un hebreishe literatur in kanade (A century of Yiddish and Hebrew literature in Canada) (Montreal, 1980).

A. SH. HALPERIN

A. SH. HALPERIN

            He was active at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries in Warsaw as a translator of classical literary works into Yiddish, such as: Eugène Sue, Der eviger yud (The wandering Jew [original: Juif errant]), “a novel in six parts, with illustrations and with a foreword” (Warsaw: Tsukermans folks-biblyotek, 1898), 414 pp. (republished in many editions: 1914, 1927, and other times as well); and William Shakespeare, Yulyus tsezar (Julius Caesar), “historical tragedy” (Warsaw: 1903), 80 pp.; Der kenig lir (King Lear), “or the ungrateful children, adapted from Shakespeare’s tragedy) (Warsaw, 1904), 43 pp.; Shaylok, der koyfman fon venedig (Shylock, the merchant of Venice), “a tale following Shakespeare” (Warsaw, 1904), 32 pp.—all from the same publisher as above.  The dates of his life remain unknown.

Khayim Leyb Fuks

WILLIAM ARON

WILLIAM ARON (1903-May 1973)

            He was born in Hamburg and received a traditional education.  He was awarded his doctorate from Hamburg University with a dissertation on Rambam’s philosophy.  He was for many years a contributor to scholarly YIVO publications.  His last work—appearing in Yivo bleter (Pages from YIVO) XLIV—was entitled “Konstantin bruner un dos yidntum” (Konstantin Brunner and Judaism).  He specialized in the history of Jewish families.

RIVKE AKERMAN

RIVKE AKERMAN

            She was born in Belzhets (Bełżec), Poland.  She survived the Holocaust in Poland.  She was the author of Poemen un lider fun payn (Poems and songs of pain) (Paris, 1957), 96 pp.