Monday, 8 April 2019

SHMARYE KLEYNMAN


SHMARYE KLEYNMAN (1892-January 25, 1986)[1]
            He was born in Baranovke (Baranovka), Volhynia.  He graduated in medicine from Rostov-on-Don University in 1918.  In late 1923 he emigrated to the United States.  He wrote features and articles for Di yudishe studentshaft (The Jewish student body) in Berlin (1913-1914), Naye tsayt (New times) in Kiev (1917-1919), Der strahl (The beam [of light]) in Warsaw (1921), Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper) in Warsaw (1922-1923, in which he had charge of the section “Shmuesn vegn higyene” [Chats about hygiene]), Folksgezunt (Public health), the monthly Dos naye vort (The new word) in Boston, and Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor) in New York, among others.  He also wrote under the pen name Y. Shagal.  He died in Detroit.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Y. Yeshurin, in Arbeter ring boyer un tuer (Builders and leaders of the Workmen’s Circle) (New York, 1962), p. 361.
Sh. Apter



[1] Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3, gives a birth date of 1891.

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