SHMUEL KERNER

SHMUEL KERNER (May 7, 1907-1999)

            He was born in Lemberg.  In 1926 he graduated from a Jewish high school in Lemberg and in 1931 from university there.  Over the years 1932-1939, he worked as a teacher of Latin in a Lodz high school.  He spent WWII in the Soviet Union.  He worked as editor, 1952-1968, in the Polish press agency in Warsaw.  From 1968 he was living in Paris.  He received his doctoral degree for a thesis on the Jewish community of Metz, 1749-1789.  He was a guest lecturer of Yiddish literature at the University of Paris.  He wrote historical articles in French and Yiddish periodicals.  He was the author, with Noyekh Gris, of the first Yidish-frantseyzisher verterbukh (Yiddish-French dictionary) (Paris, 1982), 371 pp.  He died in Paris.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 489-90.