Corbin Allardice
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...
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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...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 3, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Sholem Asch’s Warsaw Years
Sholem Asch’s Warsaw Years Little old me lived in Warsaw between 1921 and 1934. At the same time, Sholem Asch--the metropolitan of...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
My Lexicon - Sholem Asch
Sholem Asch 1880--Kutne (Kutno) Under all the writers in this private lexicon there are given various dates for when they moved and...
Corbin Allardice
- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
My Lexicon - Mark Arnshteyn (Andrzej Marek)
Mark Arnshteyn 1879--Warsaw, trips in North and South America, after 1939, remained in Warsaw. One can neither sit on two chairs nor...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Leibl Olitski
Leybl Olitski 1894 Trisk (Turiisk, Turiysk), 1932 Warsaw, in the Soviet Union since 1941. There are writers who can take minute,...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Shmaryahu Imber
Shmaryahu Imber 1868 in Zlotshev (Złoczew, Zolochiv), since 1914: Vienna, Karaoke (Krakow), Eretz-Israel. The father of Shmul Yankev...
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
My Lexicon - Shmul Yankev Imber
Shmul Yankev Imber 1889--born in Sasov (Sasiv), Galicia, lived in Lemberg (Lviv), Vienna, New York, Kroke (Krakow), and again in Lemberg....
Corbin Allardice
- Jan 31, 2021
- 7 min
My Lexicon - Author's Note
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:...
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