Nehemiah Levinsky

Not much is known about the South African Yiddish writer Nehemiah Levinsky. He lived in Bloemfontein and participated in the Yiddish cultural life of the town, even attempting to publish a Yiddish journal there in the 1930s. He was not a prolific writer. His stories were collected in a posthumously published volume Der regn hot farshpetikt (1959). The focus of his writing was the interplay between immigrant Jews and South African blacks and the poisonous impact of segregation on everyone.