MOYSHE
ZALTSMAN (MOJSHE SALZMAN) (October 9, 1908-1999)
He was born in Zamość,
Poland. He studied in religious
elementary school, and worked as a tailor.
At first, he was part of the Youth Bund, later active in the Communist
Party. He spent time in prisons in
Poland and France where he had moved in 1929.
He was dispatched to Soviet Russia in 1933, and there he was arrested in
1937 for “espionage” and sentenced to ten years of exile in a Siberian
camp. In 1947 he was freed and in 1956
rehabilitated. From 1959 he was in Paris,
and later he was in Israel. His books
include: Un men hot mikh rehabilitirṭ,
iberlebungen fun a yidishn komunist in di stalinishe tfises un lagern (And
they rehabilitated me, experiences of a Jewish Communist in Stalinist prisons
and camps) (Tel Aviv: Yisroel-bukh, 1970), 315 pp., which was translated into
Hebrew and French [and German, English, and Russian—JAF]; Yoysef epshteyn (Kolonel zshil), der heroisher yidisher frayheyts-kemfer
(Joseph Epsztejn [Colonel Gille], the heroic Jewish freedom fighter) (Paris,
1980), 71 pp.; Di groyse enderung in
yidishn lebn in frankraykh, fun der zeks-togiker milkhome biz 1980 (The
great change in Jewish life in France, from the Six Day War to 1980) (Tel Aviv:
Yisroel-bukh, 1980), 157 pp.; Bela
shapiro, di populere froyen-geshtalt (Bela Shapiro, the popular image of
women) (Paris, 1983), 71 pp.
Ruvn Goldberg
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), cols. 255-56.
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