SHLOYME GORELIK

SHLOYME GORELIK (1901-1948)

            He was born in Shchedrin (Shchadryn), Byelorussia.  After WWI he emigrated to Canada.  He settled in Hamilton, later moving to Toronto.  He was the author of a volume of stories: In orime heymen (In poor homes) (Toronto, 1941), 114 pp.  He died in Toronto.

Source: Kh. L. Fuks, Hundert yor yidishe un hebreishe literatur in kanade (A century of Yiddish and Hebrew literature in Canada) (Montreal, 1980).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 148.