BEN-TSIEN HIBEL

BEN-TSIEN HIBEL (April 5, 1909-August 2, 1974)

            He was born in Warsaw.  From his youth he was active with the right Labor Zionists.  He began writing on literature and theater for Dos vort (The word) in Warsaw.  After WWII he was at first (1946) in a camp in Berlin, later living in Munich where he was co-editor of Undzer veg (Our way), central organ of the Holocaust survivors in the American zone, and there he wrote theater reviews and literary criticism.  He was also, together with Dr. Philip Friedman, co-editor of Shriftn far literatur, kunst un gezelshaftlekhe fragn (Writings on literature, art, and social issues) (Kassel, Germany, 1948), 168 pp.—in which, among other things, he penned “Literatur, teater un kunst bay der sheyres-hapleyte” (Literature, theater, and art among the survivors).  In 1949 he arrived in the United States and lived in New York until his death.

Sources: Dr. Philip Friedman, in Tsukunft (New York) (February 1949); Sh. Katsherginski, Shmerke katsherginski ondenk-bukh (Memoirs of Shmerke Katsherginski) (Buenos Aires, 1955), p. 430; Y. Gar, Fun noentn over (New York) 3 (1957), pp. 152, 153, 173, 174.