Born on 15
April 1901 in Brisk Delite (Lithuania). Early on
he became an orphan after his father, and he
received a traditional Jewish education from his
mother. B. did not receive any systematic
secular education.
In 1921 he
immigrated to America, where he took up
business. In 1930 in Vilna's Kletskin publishing
house, under the name of Bernard Baruch
Grinberg, he published his four-act comedy "Yehuda
Tnkhi" (which should have in 1928 been published
in Vilna with an unterkepl "Der nayer
moshiakh"). About the comedy, Dr. A. Mukdoni
wrote: "A work that brings out the idea of a
false messiah... a modern Shabtai Tsvi... a play
-- an ikhidh bminh [eyngartik]. In
1931 in Vilna (also under the name Grinberg),
there was published his "Idishe tragedye", a
drama in three acts (160 pp.), that also was
under the name of Baruch Bernard, published by
New York's Bloch Publishing Company. In an
English translation. In 1933 by the publishing
house Mizrakh, N. Y., there was published his "Yehuda
tnkhis heldn lebn" (95 pp.), a poem in three
songs, that lasted only for the first gezang.
On the last page of
the book, there was oysgerechnt B.'s
other work, such as "Der khalutz", a drama in
four acts and four scenes by Baruch Brkhia,
publishing house "Nechamya", N. Y., 1927, 128
pp. "Rbi Rb ber, der gefalener", a dramatic
poem, "Business", a comedy (drama) in
three acts (N. Y., 1936), "Penelope", a
one-acter, children's play.
In 1937 in the
publishing house "Di feder", New York, published
(as an opdruk of the journal "Di feder")
his "Bankrot", a drama in three acts (107 pp.)
B. has from time to
time printed articles in "Morning Journal". In
1947 he visited Eretz Yisrael.
On 26 February 1953,
B. passed away in New York.
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"Lexicon of
the New Yiddish Literature", New York, 1956,
Vol. I, pp. 400-401.