YANKEV-PERETS
YOZELIT (b. April 23, 1909)
He was born in Kovno. He studied in the Hebrew high school
there. In 1927 he emigrated to the
United States. He graduated from
Herzliya Seminary in New York and was a teacher in various cities. From 1972 he was living in Israel. In 1927 he began writing correspondence
pieces for Idishe shtime (Jewish
voice) in Kovno, later publishing in Morgn-zhurnal
(Morning journal), Tog (Day), and Veker (Alarm) in New York, and Letste nayes (Latest news) in Tel
Aviv. He also wrote for Hebrew-language
newspapers in New York.
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 292.
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