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Alef, Y.
Using this name, a highly promising writer published stories in Shtern (Stars) in Minsk in 1919. Biographical details are unknown.
Sources: B. Orshanski, Di Yidishe Literatur in Vaysrusland Nokh der Revolutsye (Yiddish Literature in Byelorussia After the Revolution) (Moscow, 1931), pp. 165-68; B. Orshanski, “Di Yidishe Poezye in Vaysrusland Nokh der Revolutsye” (Yiddish Poetry in Byelorussia After the Revolution), Tsaytshrift (Minsk, 1931), vol. 5.
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