SHMUEL-LEYB SHVERDSHAFT (SAMUEL L. SHARP) (b. September
13, 1908)[1]
He was a
journalist, born in Plonsk, Poland. He
attended a “cheder metukan” (improved religious elementary school), and he went
on to graduate from a Polish middle school and from the law faculty of Warsaw
University. Until mid-1939 he lived in
Warsaw and in late 1940 made his way to the United States. From 1949 he was a professor at American
University in Washington, D.C. He wrote
for Polish newspapers and from 1927 was an internal contributor to Haynt (Today) and co-editor of the
weekly Der velt-shpigl (The world
mirror) in Warsaw. He wrote popular
science articles, mainly about movies, technology, and economic matters. He published pamphlets on taxes and the like
in, among other works: Vekslen un tsheken
(promissory notes and checks) (Warsaw, 1933), 42 pp. In America he concentrated on political
science pieces and published in English on international problems, such as in: Poland: White Eagle on a Red Field
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), 338 pp.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Khayim Finkelshteyn, Haynt, a tsaytung bay yidn, 1908-1939 (Haynt [Today], a newspaper for Jews, 1908-1939) (Tel Aviv, 1978),
pp. 195-97.
Berl Cohen
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