SHMUEL KREYTER (December 22, 1899-February 1978)
He was
born in Potok-Zloty (Zolotyi Potik),
Galicia. He studied in religious
elementary school. In 1913 he came to
the United States. He graduated from
middle school and a course in journalism.
He worked as a teacher in Jewish schools. In 1916 he published two issues of a journal Yugend (Youth). From 1920 he began writing poetry, sketches,
reportage pieces, and translations for: Fraye
arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Frayhayt
(Freedom), Forverts (Forward), Tog (Day), Feder (Pen), Oyfgang (Arise),
Morgn-zhurnal (Morning journal), Groyser kundes (Great prankster), Gerekhtigkeyt (Justice), Yung-kuznye (Young furrier), and Proletarishe shtime (Proletarian voice),
among others. From 1932 he was writing
for the general and the Jewish American press on Yiddish theater and Yiddish
literature. He translated from Yiddish
for the English-language anthologies of Leo V. Schwartz. He died in New York.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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