SHMUEL
(SAMUEL) MALAMUD (July 21, 1908-March 11, 2000)
He was born in Molev (Mogilev),
Podolia. He studied in a Russian public
school. In 1920 he immigrated to
Bessarabia and in 1923 to Rio de Janeiro, where he graduated from the law faculty
and practiced as an attorney. He debuted
in print in the mimeographed monthly Kedima
(Advancement). He published articles and
feature pieces in Idishe prese
(Jewish press) in Rio. He wrote on
Jewish topics in Portuguese-language newspapers in Brazil (1980). In Yiddish: In ondenk fun prasa onze (In memory of Praça Onze) (Rio de Janeiro, 1981), 174
pp.[1]
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 361.
[1] Translator’s note.
Malamud held numerous positions of importance and responsibility in the
Rio Jewish community from 1940s through the end of the century. (JAF)
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