SAM
HOFMAN (SHLOYME BEN-AVIGDOR) (b. 1882)
He was born in the small town of Ladyzhinka,
in the Uman region of Ukraine. He
studied in religious primary school, later becoming a laborer. In 1910 he emigrated to the United States,
living for a time in New York, moving to Chicago, and there he published poetry
in Di velt (The world) and Idishe arbeter-velt (World of Jewish
laborers). He was the author of In di pogrom-teg (In the days of a
pogrom), poems, prose, and aphorisms (Chicago, 1912), 58 pp. In it he lamented the Jewish pogrom victims of
1919-1920 in Ukraine and the Jews of his hometown.
Source:
Leye Mishkin, in Pinkes shikago
(Records of Chicago) (Chicago, 1952), p. 87.
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