MOYSHE
LIPSHITS (1896-April 27, 1940)
He was born in a town near Kovno,
Lithuania. In 1931 he arrived in Israel,
where he was a painter and a carpenter, and he published poetry in Nayvelt (New world), Davar (Word), and Haarets (The land). He also
contributed to: Folksblat (People’s
newspaper) in Kovno and Frimorgn
(Morning) in Riga, among others. His Balade fun umbakantn soldat (Ballad of
an unknown soldier) was staged under his supervision by a workers’ troupe in
Tel Aviv. He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources:
Y. Shtol, Unzers (Ours) (Tel Aviv,
1940), p. 37; American Jewish Yearbook
5701 (Philadelphia, 1940).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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