Idle-Leib Gruzman ( Yehude-Leib Gruzman , pseudonym "Leibele Bar Mazl" ( Leibale the lucky ) [1] ; Yiddish יהודה-לײב גרוזמאַן ; March 4, 1902 , Edinets , Khotinsky Uyezd , Bessarabian Province - June 11 1961 , Buenos Aires , Argentina ) - Argentinean Jewish journalist, editor, writer. He wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew .
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Biography
Idle-Leib Gruzman was born in the Bessarabian town of Edinets (now the district center of the Edinets district of Moldova ), where his father Avrum-Obe kept a stationery store (his parents died in the ghetto during the Great Patriotic War ). He studied at the heder , yeshiva in Mogilev on the Dniester and Odessa (1915), where he met with H.N. Bialik and J. Fichman . After the annexation of Bessarabia by Romania in 1918 he returned to Edinet, lived for some time in Chernivtsi , where he taught the Hebrew language [2] . While in Chernivtsi, he began to publish in periodicals in Hebrew - “ha-Shiloah”, “ha-Techiah” and “ha-Zfira”.
In 1922 he left for Argentina, where he soon became the director of the Hebrew school “Judith” ( Judith ) for 600 students at the IKO ( Yiddish Colonization Organization - Jewish Colonization Organization), founded by Baron de Hirsch , in Moisesville . In the late 1920s, he moved to Buenos Aires , where in 1929 he founded the weekly (and subsequently monthly) literary journal Der Spiegl (El Espejo - mirror ) - one of two literary magazines in Yiddish in Argentina (the second - "Nye" Labm ”, or new life ), which he edited until the end of his life [3] . He was also the editor of the Di Tribune newspaper in Moisesville and the editor of the commemorative magazine Penemer un penemlech ( Faces and faces ) in Buenos Aires. He was an Argentine correspondent for the New York newspaper Morgn Journal.
It was published in Yiddish in the periodicals of Argentina, “Di Yiddish Zeitung” ( Jewish newspaper ), “Far Grois Un Klein” ( for large and small ) and in Hebrew in the magazines “Ha-Bima ha-Hebrew” and “Gehalutz”. Together with Y. Botoshansky, he published four books of the Besaraber Idn series ( Bessarabian Jews ).