SHLOYME
ZALTSMAN (1872-December 1, 1946)
He hailed from a town in Grodno
district. He lived in Odessa and played
an important role in the rise of the Russian Yiddish press. After 1905 he ran a publishing house in
Odessa, which published pro-Zionist pamphlets, some of which he wrote
himself. He published current events
articles in Fraynd (Friend) in St.
Petersburg and in subsequent years in Haynt
(Today) in Warsaw. He was the publisher,
1917-1918, of Petrograder togblat
(Petrograd daily newspaper). From the
1920s he was living in Israel. He died
in Givat Betar.
Sources:
D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 2 (Tel Aviv, 1947), p.
670; Sefer hashana shel haitonaim (The annual of newspapers) (Tel Aviv, 1947/1948), p. 250; E.
Davidzon, Seḥok
pinu (Laughter from the mouth) (Tel Aviv, 1951), p. 357.
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