YITSKHOK
ZOHAR (b. January 31, 1906)
He was born in Sotsheve,
Ukraine. He studied in religious primary
schools and with the city rabbi. He was
among those deported to Transnitria.
After the war he lived in France.
Among his books, in Yiddish: Muzikalishe
drames iber yisroel (Musical dramas about Israel) (Paris, 1970), 2 vols.;
and in Hebrew, Beriv aḥim
nafla yehuda (Judah fell in the fight among brothers) (Tel Aviv, 1983), 143
pp.; Beḥutsot
yerushalayim (In the streets of Jerusalem) (Tel Aviv, 1983). He left in manuscript the dramas: Dray kidushin fingerlekh (Three wedding
rings), Motl der yoyred (Motl the
impoverished man), Kibuts ḥolamot
(Kibbutz of dreams), and Moshe hes
(Moses Hess), among others.
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 259.
Ezra Lahad
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