יעקב בן שמואל אָבערזשאַנעק (1891 - 1943)

Born 15 Jan 1891 in לאדזש, Łódź, Powiat łódzki, Gubernia piotrkowska, Polska

Died 1943 at about age 51 in ווארשע, Warszawa, Warszawskie, Polska

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Biography

יעקב בן שמואל אָבערזשאַנעק is Notable.

יעקב בן שמואל אָבערזשאַנעק has Jewish Roots.

Yankev Obarzanek, son of cloth merchant Shmuel Obarzanek & Gittel, was a Yiddish-language writer from Łódź in Poland, who published in various local Yiddish newspapers. His collection of humorous pieces, Nadir un veyn nisht! was published in 1938.

In 1913, Obarzanek helped his younger brother Hirsh escape conscription in Russia by sailing for England.

In September 1939, Obarzanek & other noted Yiddish writers from Łódź were arrested & thrown into the Radogoszcz Concentration Camp. He is said to have escaped, but died in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.

Sources

• “YANKEV OBAZHANEK (OBERZANEK).” Yiddish Leksikon, 20 Apr. 2014, https://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2014/04/yankev-obazhanek-1891-1943-born-in-lodz.html. Accessed 2 Oct. 2023. ‌

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