Shimen Horontshik Born 1889 in Vyelun (Wieluń). Lived in various cities in Poland. Traveled to France. Returned to Warsaw. Took his own...

Ber Horovits Born 1895 in Maydan (Majdan), a village in Eastern Galicia. Soldier in WWI; Trips to Vienna, Berlin, Paris. Lived in Vilne...

Leon Draykurs Born in Lemberg (Lviv), 1894. Austrian soldier, 1914-1918. Novelist, journalist, and actor in Warsaw, since 1926. Prior to...

Uri Tsvi Grinberg Born 1894 in Bilkomen (Bilyi Kamin) near Zlotshev (Zolochiv) in Galicia. Soldier in World War I; Lemberg (Lviv) events,...

Moyshe Dovid Giser Born 1893 in Radom. 1917, Cologne, Germany. 1921, Warsaw. 1924, Argentina. 1933, Santiago de Chile. Moyshe Dovid Giser...

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...

Moyshe Broderzon Born in Moscow, 1890; Nesvizh, 1894; Lodz, 1900; Moscow, 1914; Lodz, 1918. Western European nations. Soviet Union, 1939....

Sh. Berlinski Born 1896* in a shtetl near Kelts (Kielce); Lodz; Warsaw; since 1939--Soviet Union. Do you know the melancholy of the...

Herz Bergner 1907--Redim (Radymno), a shtetl in Galicia; 1915-1918--Vienna; 1923--Warsaw; 1938--Australia. My flesh and blood brother,...

M. Burshtin Born in Plonsk, 1896. Lived in Warsaw. Since 1939--Soviet Union. When you pick up a lexicon or literary anthology and leaf...

Yitskhok Bashevis (Isaac Bashevis Singer) Born 1904, Bilgoray (Bilgoraj), Poland. 1923--Warsaw, 1935--New York. Bashevis is I. J....

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...

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...

Sholem Asch’s Warsaw Years Little old me lived in Warsaw between 1921 and 1934. At the same time, Sholem Asch--the metropolitan of...

Sholem Asch 1880--Kutne (Kutno) Under all the writers in this private lexicon there are given various dates for when they moved and...

Mark Arnshteyn 1879--Warsaw, trips in North and South America, after 1939, remained in Warsaw. One can neither sit on two chairs nor...

Leybl Olitski 1894 Trisk (Turiisk, Turiysk), 1932 Warsaw, in the Soviet Union since 1941. There are writers who can take minute,...

Shmaryahu Imber 1868 in Zlotshev (Złoczew, Zolochiv), since 1914: Vienna, Karaoke (Krakow), Eretz-Israel. The father of Shmul Yankev...

Shmul Yankev Imber 1889--born in Sasov (Sasiv), Galicia, lived in Lemberg (Lviv), Vienna, New York, Kroke (Krakow), and again in Lemberg....

Author’s Note My father used to say that he had, by inheritance from my grandfather, and that I have, by inheritance from my father:...