DAVID YONAS

DAVID YONAS (b. ca. 1920)

            He was born in Jassy (Iași), Romania, where he worked as a teacher.  Around 1950 he made aliya to Israel.  He published a Romanian anthology of Jewish humor (Jassy, 1947).  He was the author of a booklet entitled Biternish, opklangen (Bitterness, echoes) (Jassy, 1945-1947), comprised of poems from the Holocaust.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 294.