SHLOYME KAZIMIROVSKI (b. August 5, 1909)
He was a
poet, born in Vilna. He attended
yeshivas until age eighteen, and thereafter he entered the ORT (Association
for the Promotion of Skilled Trades) polytechnic in Vilna. He spent WWII in Soviet Russia. From 1948 he was living in Israel. His poetry has been published in: Fray-shul (Free school), Problemen (Problems) in Tel Aviv, Dorem-afrike (South Africa) in
Johannesburg, and Zamlungen
(Collections) in New York, but the majority of his writings have appeared in
Tel Aviv’s Yidishe tsaytung (Yiddish
newspaper). His works include: Shotn un likht, lider un poemes (Shadow
and light, poetry) (Tel Aviv: Nay-lebn, 1973), 558 pp. He was last living in Ramat Gan.
Source: A. Baraban, in Yidishe tsaytung (Tel Aviv) (November 9, 1973).
Ruvn Goldberg
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