Thursday 7 January 2016

SHLOYME BAS

SHLOYME BAS (b. 1893)
            He was born in Pinsk, Poland, and long studied Talmud and commentators.  At the start of WWII, he was arrested by the Soviets.  Freed after the war, he was in a displaced persons’ camp in Germany, and from 1949 he was living in Israel.  He wrote articles in Natsyonale vokhnshrift (National weekly writing) in Pinsk, and Moment (Moment) and Haynt (Today) in Warsaw.  He later served as a member of the editorial board of Unzer velt (Our world) in Munich.

Source: Ḥazit haoved (Tel Aviv) (December 15, 1962).


Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 53.

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