ZALMEN HOLTSBERG

ZALMEN HOLTSBERG (May 23, 1923-August 28, 1981)

            He was born in Kovno.  He studied in the Tavriker Hebrew middle school.  In 1941 he graduated from a Lithuanian high school.  He was confined in the Slobodka ghetto and later joined the partisans.  After the war he was in Vilna, where he graduated from the law faculty at Vilna University.  In 1971 he made aliya to Israel.  He published poetry in Yiddish periodicals in the United States, Israel, and South Africa.  In book form: Tropns fun mayne shoybn (Drops from my glasses) (Tel Aviv: Doḥak, 1979), 95 pp.  He died in Beersheba.

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