Creator Bio
Yossl Birstein
1920–2003
Born in Poland, novelist and poet Yossl Birstein came to Australia at age seventeen. He moved to Israel in 1950 and lived at Kibbutz Gevat and Jerusalem. Famed as a storyteller, Birstein wrote in Yiddish and Hebrew, and translated many works from one language to the other.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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One Day, during World War II
One day, during World War Two, a military chaplain arrived at our army camp in the Australian outback, to celebrate the Feast of Hanukkah with us and tell us about the wars of the Maccabees. Apart…