RUZHA FISHMAN-SHNAYDMAN (RÓŻA FISZMAN-SZNAJDMAN)

RUZHA FISHMAN-SHNAYDMAN (RÓŻA FISZMAN-SZNAJDMAN) (June 2, 1913-1985)

            She was born in Lublin, Poland.  She came from an artisan family.  She graduated from a Polish high school.  She was active in the leftist labor movement in Poland.  She spent the years 1939-1946 in Soviet Russia.  She returned to Poland and in 1969 emigrated to Sweden.  In book form: Mayn lublin, bilder funem lebns-shteyger fun yidn in farmilkhomedikn poyln (My Lublin, images from the lives of Jews in prewar Poland) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1982), 238 pp.

Sources: M. Saktsyer, in Yidishe tsaytung (Tel Aviv) (November 26, 1982); Kh. Zeltser, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (December 31, 1982).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 444-45.