Corbin Allardice
My Lexicon - Moyshe Zilburg
Moyshe Zilburg (Zilberg; Moshe Silburg) Born 1884 in Molodetshne (Maladzyechna). Lemberg (Lviv) in 1910, following a period in a Tsarist...
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Corbin Allardice
- May 10, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Itshe Meyer Vaysenberg (Isaac Meier Weissenberg)
Itshe Meyer Vaysenberg Born 1881 in Zhelekhov (Żelechów). In Warsaw since 1904. Short trip to America. Died in late 1938. For thirty-four...
Corbin Allardice
- May 9, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Oyzer Varshavski
Oyzer Varshavski (Ozer, Oser Warszawski) Born 1898 in a shtetl near Warsaw. Spent WWI and later years in Warsaw. From 1923 on, in Western...
Corbin Allardice
- May 8, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Hershele (Herszele)
Hershele Hersh Danilevitsh (Danilewicz), born in Lipne (Lipno) in 1882. Traveled to Geneva (Genf) in 1908. Lived near Warsaw. Died in the...
Corbin Allardice
- May 5, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Kalmen Khayim Heysherik
Kalmen Khayim Heysherik (Kalmen Chaim Hajszryk) Born around 1890 in Turek, Poland, served in the Russian and Polish armies during the...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Falk Heylperin (Halperin)
Falk Heylperin (Halperin) Born 1876 in Nesvizh (Nyasvizh)--lived in various cities in the former Russian empire. Settled in Vilne in 1921...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 20, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Menachem Mendl Hurvits
Menachem Mendl Hurvits Born 1881 in Libavitsh (Lyubavitchi), Mogilev Gubernya, Belorus [now in Smolensk Oblast, Russia]. Spent almost his...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 19, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Shimen Horontshik (Szymon Horonczyk)
Shimen Horontshik Born 1889 in Vyelun (Wieluń). Lived in various cities in Poland. Traveled to France. Returned to Warsaw. Took his own...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 18, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Ber Horovits (Horowitz, Horowic)
Ber Horovits Born 1895 in Maydan (Majdan), a village in Eastern Galicia. Soldier in WWI; Trips to Vienna, Berlin, Paris. Lived in Vilne...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Leon Draykurs (Dreikurs)
Leon Draykurs Born in Lemberg (Lviv), 1894. Austrian soldier, 1914-1918. Novelist, journalist, and actor in Warsaw, since 1926. Prior to...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 13, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Uri Tsvi Grinberg
Uri Tsvi Grinberg Born 1894 in Bilkomen (Bilyi Kamin) near Zlotshev (Zolochiv) in Galicia. Soldier in World War I; Lemberg (Lviv) events,...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 12, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Moyshe Dovid Giser (Guiser)
Moyshe Dovid Giser Born 1893 in Radom. 1917, Cologne, Germany. 1921, Warsaw. 1924, Argentina. 1933, Santiago de Chile. Moyshe Dovid Giser...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Shloyme Gilbert
Shloyme Gilbert Born 1885 in Radzymin, near Warsaw. Spent his entire life in Warsaw or Otwock. 1943--tragic news. You don’t see him and...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Moyshe Broderzon
Moyshe Broderzon Born in Moscow, 1890; Nesvizh, 1894; Lodz, 1900; Moscow, 1914; Lodz, 1918. Western European nations. Soviet Union, 1939....
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 9, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Shloyme Berlinski
Sh. Berlinski Born 1896* in a shtetl near Kelts (Kielce); Lodz; Warsaw; since 1939--Soviet Union. Do you know the melancholy of the...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 8, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Herz Bergner
Herz Bergner 1907--Redim (Radymno), a shtetl in Galicia; 1915-1918--Vienna; 1923--Warsaw; 1938--Australia. My flesh and blood brother,...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 7, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Mikhoel Burshtin (Bursztyn)
M. Burshtin Born in Plonsk, 1896. Lived in Warsaw. Since 1939--Soviet Union. When you pick up a lexicon or literary anthology and leaf...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 6, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Yitskhok Bashevis (Isaac Bashevis Singer) Born 1904, Bilgoray (Bilgoraj), Poland. 1923--Warsaw, 1935--New York. Bashevis is I. J....
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 5, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Yisroel Ashendorf
Yisroel (Israel) Ashendorf Born 1909 in a shtetl in Galicia, spent his life in Lemberg (Lviv), in the Soviet Union since 1939. We use du...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Matilda Asch
Matilda (Madzhe) Asch Nee Shapiro, originally from Lodz, the wife of Sholem Asch. This was in 1911 and I was then in Lemberg (Lviv). At...
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