SHMUEL
YANOVSKI (1890-July 20, 1935)
He was born in Motele (Motal’, Motol’),
near Pinsk, Byelorussia. Until age
thirteen he studied in religious primary school in Motele and in Pinsk, later
becoming a free auditor at the Universities of Warsaw and Kiev. He began his journalistic activities in 1911
with correspondence pieces on the Beilis Trial in Moment (Moment) in Warsaw, at which he later become an internal
contributor. Over the years 1931-1935,
he was the principal contributor and editor of Radyo (Radio) in Warsaw. He
published articles as well in: Ilustrirte
vokh (Illustrated week), Dos folk
(The people), and other Yiddish and Polish periodicals. For many years he served as a correspondent
for Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal)
in New York. He compiled a bibliography
of Yiddish periodical publications throughout the world, from the founding of
Antoni Ayzenboym’s (Anthony Eisenbaum) Der
beobakhter an der vaysel (The observer on the Vistula [River]) which he
gave to YIVO in New York. He died in
Warsaw.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1;
obituary notice in Vilner tog (Vilna)
(July 21, 1935); Yedies fun yivo
(Vilna) 4-5 (September 1936); Toyznt yor
pinsk (1000 years of Pinsk) (New York, 1941), p. 325.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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