NOSN-SHMUEL DAVIS

NOSN-SHMUEL DAVIS (1893-1973)

            He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania.  He studied in religious elementary school, later moving to Bacău (Romania).  He emigrated to New York, where he worked in a sweatshop.  He later moved to Mexico and spent his last years in Miami Beach.  He was active in the Frayland League.  In books: Di geshikhte fun a lebn (The story of a life) (Mexico City-Miami Beach, 1963), 202 pp.  He died in Miami Beach.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 196, 541.