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Regalsky Marcos (1885-1959)

Personal data
SurnameRegalsky
NameMarcos
Birth year1885
Birth placeMoscow
Death year1959
Death placeBuenos
SexM

Regalsky Marcos (Yitzhok Berlin) (1885, Moscow — 1959, Buenos Aires) — publicist.

Marcos Regalsky studied at a gymnasium in Warsaw and attended lectures in philosophy and literature at the Humboldt University of Berlin.

He lived in Warsaw, Zhytomyr, Kaunas, Berlin, Copenhagen; from 1914 in New York City; and from 1918 in Buenos Aires.

From 1909 he contributed to the Warsaw newspaper Haint (“Haynt”), as well as to Fraynd and other Jewish publications in Riga, Copenhagen, New York, Chicago, and Berlin.

From 1922 he was a staff contributor to the Buenos Aires newspaper Di Idishe Tsaytung.

Major works:

“Voe ikh hob gezen in Erets-Yisroel” (“What I Saw in Eretz Israel,” Buenos Aires, 1936)

“Tsvishn beyde velt-milkhomes” (“Between the Two World Wars,” Buenos Aires, 1945)

He translated into Yiddish Arthur Schnitzler’s novel Der Weg ins Freie (The Road to Freedom), published in New York in 1918.