SHLOYME TENTSER

SHLOYME TENTSER (b. October 21, 1900)

            He was born in Nay-Sandz (Nowy Sącz), Galicia.  He studied in religious primary school and yeshiva.  During WWII he was exiled to Soviet Russia.  In 1946 he returned to Poland and in 1947 came to the United States.  He was last living in New York.  In book form: Mayn lebens beshraybung, 1900-1947 (My life’s description, 1900-1957), vol. 1 (New York, 1972), 285 pp.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 286.