Lerner, Josle

Josl Lerner was born in the county of Bessarabian Reni , located on the left bank of the Danube (now a district center in the Odessa region of Ukraine ) in 1903 . ^[1] Lived in Briceni (now the district center of the Briceni district of Moldova ), studied in Chernivtsi , in the 1930s worked as a teacher in Stefaneshty ( Botosani county in the Romanian province of Moldova ).

He made his debut in 1929 with poems in the periodical press of Romania (the newspaper Chernovitser Blater), and in 1936 in Lauerner's first poetic collection Dos Gezang fun hintergaz: lead un folksmotiv came out in Bucharest ( Chant gateways: a song and folk motif ), in which his interest in urban folklore was fully manifested. In 1936, together with the poet Yosef Trakhtenberg, he wrote a series of one-act plays for a variety theater.

After the accession of Bessarabia and Bukovina to the USSR in 1940, Josl Lerner settled in Chernivtsi. During the Great Patriotic War - in the ghetto in Transnistria . With the disappearance of Soviet periodicals in Yiddish in the 1940s, he was no longer able to print.

In 1949, he was arrested during the mass arrests of Jewish writers, sentenced to 10 years of forced labor camps, and after his release in 1954 he returned to Chernivtsi .

In 1972, Josl Lerner moved to Israel , where he again began to publish poetry and published several poetry collections, including Fun Hemair Pines ( From the Helem Chronicle , 1975), Biz S'heybt He Togn ( until it starts to get light , 1977), “Bam ofenam Fenzter” ( At the open window , 1979), “Lider un meislekh mith and Gutn Maine” ( Poems and fairy tales with good intention , 1983).

It was published in “Chernovitser blater” ( Chernivtsi leaflets , Chernovitsy ), “Unzer cite” ( Our time , Chisinau ), “Shoibm” ( Windows , Bucharest ), “Ufgang” ( Sunrise , Siget ), “Literarishe bloter” ( Literary sheets , Warsaw ), Naye Prese and Unzer Vort ( New Press and Our Word , Paris ), Idishe Zeitung ( Jewish Newspaper , Buenos Aires ), Sovetish Gameland and Horizont (Moscow), Israeli editions Bazih "( At Home)," Yerushaaymer Almanac "( Jerusalem Almanac )," Yisroel Stieme "( Voice of Israel )," Lety Nayes "( Latest News ).

• דאָס געזאַנג פֿון הינטערגאַס: ליד און פֿאָלקסמאָטיװ ( Dos gezang fun hinteergas: lead un folksmotiv - tune of a gate: song and folk motif), Farlag Shollam-Aleyhem : Bucharest , 1936.
• פֿון כעלעמער פּנקס ( fun hemer pink - from the Helem chronicle), I.L. Pepper- Farlag: Tel Aviv , 1975.
• ביז ס'הײבט אָן טאָגן ( biz c'heybt he togn - until it starts to get light), Tel Aviv, 1977.
• בײַם אָפֿענעם פֿענצטער ( bam ofanem fanzer - at the open window), Nai-Labm ( New Life ): Tel Aviv, 1979.
• לידער און מעשׂהלעך מיט אַ גוטן מײן (Leader un meiselah mit a gutn meyn - poems and fairy tales with good intent), H. Leivik-Farlag: Tel-Aviv, 1966 and 1983.
• ל בהונות עולה השחר - שירים ( Hebrew ), 1981.

• Group photo : From left to right: writers: Gersh-Leib Weinstein-Cajber , Josl Lerner, S. Sofer, Naphtoli-Hertz Kon .