SHMUEL DOMNITS

SHMUEL DOMNITS (1888-November 15, 1971)

            He was born in Starobin, Russia.  He studied in a yeshiva in Minsk.  In 1907 he emigrated to the United States.  He lived in New York and later in Los Angeles.  He published poetry in Di feder (The pen) in New York and in California Jewish periodicals.  In book form: Fun mayn gortn, lider (From my garden, poems) (New York, 1965), 77 pp.  He died in New York.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 188.