David Berezovski
Yiddish language writer and journalist
About David Berezovski
Lived 1896 – 1943 (aged 46–47). David Berezovski was a journalist, writer, newspaper editor and translator.
David Berezovski (; 1896–1943) was a journalist, writer, translator and newspaper editor active in Vilnius and Grodno in the 1920s and 1930s. He is best known for being editor of the Grodno newspaper , later known as and then as , from 1924 to 1939. He was soon regularly contributing feuilletons, articles, and humorous sketches to the Yiddish language press there, especially to the . He used the paper as a platform to criticize the government and examine the life of local Jews in more detail. The inner pages of the newspaper seem to have consisted of news from Warsaw newspapers.
Berezovski was also a supporter of the Yiddish theatre. In the 1930s he regularly collaborated with comedian Yitzhak Azarkh to bring Yiddish theatre troupes to Grodno. He also regularly wrote reviews of the Yiddish theatre. After that he was reduced to working for the Belarusian paper , transcribing radio broadcasts of news stories. But even that job disappeared after he was denounced in an open letter as the former editor of a "fascist" newspaper.
Grodno was invaded by German forces in June 1941 and its Jewish residents were forced into the Grodno Ghetto by November. He then worked in an infirmary with his daughter Basya. (1921) (1921) (1922) (a translation of Maxim Gorky's Mother, 1922)
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Who was David Berezovski?
Yiddish language writer and journalist
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David Berezovski was born in 1896 in Merkinė.
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David Berezovski died in 1943 in Treblinka extermination camp.
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David Berezovski was a journalist, writer, newspaper editor and translator.
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