David Berezovski

David Berezovski (Yiddish: דוד בערעזאָװסקי; 1896–1943) was a journalist, writer, translator and newspaper editor active in Vilnius and Grodno in the 1920s and 1930s.

[3][2][1] His father Nakhman was a lumber merchant who gave him a basic Jewish education; his mother was named Rivke.

[2][5][6] He was soon regularly contributing feuilletons, articles, and humorous sketches to the Yiddish language press there, especially to the Vilner tog.

[1] In the early 1920s he also translated a handful of Maxim Gorky's books into Yiddish and published them in Vilnius, including My Childhood in 1920 and Mother in 1922.

[1][12] After that he was reduced to working for the Belarusian paper Svobodnaya Belarus, transcribing radio broadcasts of news stories.