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, 20214 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, 20214 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, 20213 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, 20214 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, 20214 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, 20214 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, 20214 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, 20213 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, 20214 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, 20213 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 13, 20213 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, 20214 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, 20214 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, 20213 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, 20214 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20213 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, 20213 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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