SH.
YESHELSON (1898-November 30, 1941)
He was born in Riga. He studied in religious elementary school and
in a yeshiva, later graduating from a Russian high school, and later still from
the law faculty of Riga University. He
became a lawyer, though remaining a pious Jew.
He was a member of Agudat Yisrael.
In 1925 he became a member of the editorial board of the Riga
Yiddish-language daily newspaper Dos folk
(The people), and there, at the time of the strike of all the contributors to
the newspaper, he moved over (1926) to Frimorgn
(Morning) which was founded at this time; and for many years he contributed to
it. He was confined in the Riga ghetto
when the Nazis invaded, and he was murdered in the great massacre that took
place on November 30, 1941.
Sources:
M. Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in letland
(25 years of the Yiddish press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933), pp. 40-43, 54; A Riger,
in Almanakh fun riger relif (Almanac
of Riga assistance) 3 (New York, 1948).
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