MEYLEKH SHVARTS

MEYLEKH SHVARTS (1892-1944)

            He was the author of stories, born in Lodz.  He supported himself by art-knitting.  From 1913 he was published stories in Lodz’s Yiddish daily press as well as in: S’feld (The field), Vegn (Pathways), and Shveln (Thresholds), among others.  He published a volume of stories (unseen).  From the Lodz ghetto he was deported to Auschwitz where he perished.

Source: Khayim Leyb Fuks, Lodzh shel mayle, dos yidishe gaystiḳe un derhoybene lodzh, 100 yor yidishe un oykh hebreishe literatur un kultur in lodzh un in di arumiḳe shtet un shtetlekh (Lodz on high, the Jewish spiritual and elevated Lodz, 100 years of Yiddish and also Hebrew literature and culture in Lodz and in the surrounding cities and towns) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1972), pp. 108, 149.

Berl Cohen