Albirt, Yoysef — Congress for Jewish Culture

Albirt, Yoysef

1904–1987

approx. 79 - 83 years

Born in Vilna, later lived in Lide (Lida). He worked there as the editor of a Yiddish weekly. During WWII and thereafter, he was in Tashkent.

Author of: Bandazhn Proletarishe (Proletarian Bandages) (Lida, 1935); Gerangl-Gezangen (Songs of Struggle) (Vilna, 1936), 23 pp.; Masholim (Fables) (Brestetshko, 1939), 32 pp.; and other works. In 1942 he published a book of poetry in Tashkent, Af Milkhome Temes (On War Themes), which was translated into Russian as Krasnie Poezda (Red Convoy). His subsequent career remains unknown.

Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc. Biographical Dictionary of Modern Yiddish Literature (Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur). Vol. 1, ed. Shmuel Niger and Yankev Shatski, New York: Marstin Press, 1956.

p.87

Beider, Chaim. Biographical Dictionary of Yiddish Writers in the Soviet Union (Leksikon fun Yidishe Shrayber in Ratn-Farband), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh, New York: Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011.

p.20

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Leksikon fun der Nayer Yidisher Literatur

לעקסיקאָן פֿון דער נײַער ייִדישער ליטעראַטור