Zaytchik, Avrom-Khayim
His real name was Aron Khayim, but he used Avrom Khayim as a literary pseudonym. He was a translator and a poet. He worked as an accountant and a teacher. In 1930-1936 he was published in the weekly press “Gluboker lebn”. He wrote feuilletons, essays and poetry. He was published in various Yiddish periodicals, mainly for children. He translated into Yiddish A.S. Pushkin, S.Y. Marshak, K.I. Tchukovsky, M. Servantes and Schiller. He translated Schiller’s drama “Wilhelm Tell” for Vilna Yiddish children’s theatre. He survived his wife Miriam (née Rubin) who perished in Glubokoye and lived in Orenburg after the war.
His successor Boris Isayevich Zaitchik mentions him in his book “There rode in a tram Solovey /Nightingale/ and Zaitchiks /Hares/. About the rabbinic dynasty Zaytchik, Manuil Solovey and more“. He mentions that A.Kh. Zaitchik did not perish during WWII unlike it is written in the Russian Jewish encyclopeadia, the link to which is below (in Russian).