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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 19, 20214 min read


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 18, 20213 min read


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 15, 20214 min read


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 read


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 13, 20213 min read


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 11, 20214 min read


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 10, 20214 min read


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 9, 20213 min read


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 8, 20214 min read


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 7, 20213 min read


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 6, 20213 min read


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 5, 20213 min read


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 4, 20213 min read


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 3, 20214 min read


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 2, 20214 min read


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
Feb 1, 20212 min read


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, 20213 min read


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, 20213 min read


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, 20213 min read


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:...

Corbin Allardice
Jan 31, 20217 min read
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