SHLOYME
BLOND (b. December 5, 1897)
He was born in Tismenits (Tysmenytsya),
Galicia. He graduated from public school
in Tismenits and from high school in Tlumach (Tlumacz). During WWII he was saved by being hidden by a
Christian. In 1948 he made aliya to
Israel. Among his books: Tismenits, a matseyve af di khurves fun a
farnikhteter yidisher kehile (Tysmenytsya, a monument on the ruins of a destroyed Jewish
community) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1974), 262 pp., in Yiddish and Hebrew; Ḥaside umot haolam (Righteous among the
nations), accounts of those saved from death, concerning the Christians who
saved them (Tel Aviv, 1983), 395, 164 pp.—in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English.
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 87.
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