N. SHTERNBERG

N. SHTERNBERG (d. January 1943)

            He was in the Warsaw Ghetto where he frequently appeared at literary evenings.  He wrote literary critical articles and poetry.  He often wrote for Haynt (Today) in Warsaw, and he contributed as well to: Yidish (Yiddish), Tsukunft (Future) (1932, 1933, 1935) in New York, and Vokhnshrift far literatur un kunst (Weekly writing for literature and art) in Warsaw, among others.  He translated many of the Hebrew poems of A. Ibn-Zahav.  He died in the Warsaw Ghetto.

Source: B. Mark, Umgekumene shrayber fun di getos un lagern (Murdered writers from the ghettos and camps) (Warsaw, 1954).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 525-26.