Wednesday 16 December 2015

AMNON AYZENSHTADT (AJZENSTADT)

AMNON AYZENSHTADT (AJZENSTADT) (b. April 28, 1918)
            He was born in Tsoyzmir (Sandomierz), Poland, and raised in a Hassidic household.  Until late 1939 he was in Warsaw, a student in a religious teachers’ seminary and a music conservatory.  He survived the ghetto and concentration camps.  From 1948 he was living in Toronto.  He wrote articles for Idishe zhurnal (Jewish journal) in Toronto, Keneder odler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal, and others.  He also authored: Un di erd hot nisht tsugedekt dos blut (And the earth did not cover the blood) (Toronto, 1962), 373 pp.


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

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