HIRSH TSINOMAN

HIRSH TSINOMAN (ca. 1897-1941?)

            He was born in the village of Krenitse (Krynica), near Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland.  He received a traditional Jewish education.  In 1924 he left for the land of Israel and worked in agriculture and constructing highways.  He later returned to Poland.  He published stories in: Oyfgang (Arise), Shedletser vokhnblat (Siedlce weekly newspaper), and elsewhere.  In 1932 he began publishing in Warsaw Dos dorf (The village), a weekly organ of the Jewish farmer in Poland, and at the same time he developed a broad campaign to organize fruit farmers, lessees, and horticulturalists into cooperatives.  He was also active in organizing village Jewish youth into pioneers, and prior to the outbreak of WWII, he was preparing to go with them to the land of Israel.  He was murdered during WWII.

Sources: Y. F. Grinberg, in Shedletser vokhnblat (Siedlce) (March 18, 1932); Yidishe shriftn (Lodz), anthology (1941); Y. Papyernikov, Heymishe un noente, demonungen (Familiar and close at hand, remembrances) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1958), pp. 251, 253.

Yankev Kahan