ARN
VAYSMAN (1894-February 16, 1974)
He was born in Uman, Ukraine, the
son of the Hebrew writer Khayim Vaysman.
He studied in religious primary school and with private tutors. At age eighteen he started publishing stories
and legends from Jewish folk life in local Russian newspapers. In 1920 he left Ukraine for Galicia where he
taught Hebrew. In 1925 he made aliya to
Israel. He published his stories in various
Hebrew-language periodicals. In Yiddish
he published stories in Tog-morgn zhurnal
(Day-morning journal) and Tsukunft
(Future), both in New York. He
translated into Hebrew a significant number of works by Yiddish writers. In book form: Humoreskot (Humorous sketches), original humorous stories, as well
as translations from Moyshe Nadir, Der Tunkeler, B. Kovner, Y. Y. Trunk, D.
Segal, Der Lebediker, and others (Tel Aviv, 1951), 140 pp; Olam neelam (A world gone), translated stories by Borekh Hager, A.
M. Vaysenberg, M. Spektor, Dovid Pinski, H. D. Nomberg, Y. Y. Zinger, Y.
Opatoshu, Daniel Charney, and others (Tel Aviv, 1953/1954), 190 pp. He was also the translator of Yoyel Mastboym’s
Kaptsonim (Paupers) [Hebrew: Kabtsanim] (Tel Aviv, 1955/1956).[1] He was the translator of: Banot
tseḥok (Smiles)
(Tel Aviv, 1956/1957), 140 pp.; Avinu
shomer (Our father Shomer [Nokhum
Meyer Shaykevitch]) by Rose Shomer Bachelis (Jerusalem, 1953),
200 pp.; Banot hakadar (Daughters of
the Ishmaelites) by Moyshe Dluzhnovski (Jerusalem, 1954), 296 pp.; and Tseror humor (A bundle of humor),
translations from Yiddish and Russian (Tel Aviv, 1958), 242 pp. He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources:
Al Pomerants, in Tsukunft (New York)
(October 1954); Shmuel Niger, in Idisher kemfer (New York) (December 23, 1956); A. Almi, in Fraye arbeter shtime (New York) (August 9, 1957); M. Kushnir, in Omer (Tel Aviv) (Sivan 1 [= May 2], 1957;
Sivan 11 [= May 30], 1958).
Zaynvl Diamant
[1] This may be an error.
Vaysman translated Y. Y. Trunk Zibn
kaptsonim (Seven paupers) [Hebrew: Sheva
kabtsanim], published in Tel Aviv (1955/1956)—JAF.
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