YIDDISH WRITERS (according to YIVO archive)

Platner, Ayzek (1895–1961), poet and writer. Ayzek Platner was born in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland. His poetry first appeared in 1919. From 1920 he lived in Kaunas, where he worked as a tailor, and in 1927 he immigrated to the United States, worked as a teacher, and was a member of the Union Square and Proletpen literary groups. In 1932, he moved to Minsk to work at the newspaper Oktyabr. During World War II, he lived in Saransk and then returned to Minsk. Platner was banished to the gulag from 1948 to 1956 and once again returned to Minsk. He published more than 10 books of poetry and prose, both in Yiddish and in translations into Russian and Belorussian.

Ajzek Płatner, first from the right, and Baruch Winogóra 3rd from the right

Tsanin, Mordkhe (1906–?), writer and journalist. Born in Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, from 1921 Mordkhe Tsanin lived in Warsaw and worked for the Central Yiddish School Organization (TSYSHO). He published short stories, novels in installments, and literary criticism in the left-wing Yiddish press; two collections of his stories were issued in Warsaw in 1933 and 1935. A prolific writer and journalist, he has lived in Israel since 1941.