SHOLEM TSALER

SHOLEM TSALER (b. March 13, 1918)

            He was born in Stanislav, Galicia.  He attended the local yeshiva Or-Tora (Light of the Torah) and received ordination into the rabbinate.  He later studied at the Hebrew teachers’ seminary in Lemberg and in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1938-1943).  He began writing in Hebrew, publishing poems in Hasolel (The paver) in Lemberg.  He also contributed to Lemberg’s Morgn (Morning), in which he published a novel entitled Di blondzhende yugnt (The wandering youth).  From 1937 to 1957, he lived in Israel, thereafter in Montreal, Canada, where he was a teacher in a Hebrew school.  He published three novels: Zina (Zina) in Toronto’s Yidisher zhurnal (Jewish journal); and Mit blut un fayer (With blood and fire) and Di draysik teg (The thirty days) in Montreal’s Keneder odler (Canadian eagle).  In manuscript, he was writing a novel entitled Lebn in trern (Life in tears)—concerning the rise of the state of Israel.  He was last living in Israel.

Elye (Elias) Shulman