MOYSHE SHVARTSFELD (1857-1943)
He was
born in Jassy (Iași), Romania. He was one of the
most important Romanian Jewish historians and journalists. In Romanian he published numerous works on
Jewish folklore, on the new Yiddish theater, and the Yiddish press in
Romania. Over the years 1873-1884, he compiled
from the people Yiddish proverbs, jokes, fables, anecdotes, and other sorts of
Yiddish folk creations, altogether 7000 entries. He died in Bucharest.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Shloyme Bikl, in Keneder odler (Montreal) (January 24, 1958); Julian Shvarts, Literarishe dermonungen (Literary
reminiscences) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1975).
Berl Cohen
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