NOKHUM SHARON (1912-May 22, 1976)
He was
born in Loytsk (Lutsk), Volhynia. He
attended a Jewish and later a Polish high school. At a very early age he joined Hashomer
Hatsayir (The young guard), and he was later one of its leaders. During WWII he was in Lemberg and in the Red
Army. From 1949 he was living in Israel,
where he was active in Mapam (United Workers’ Party). He was co-editor of Yisroel shtime (Voice of Israel) in Tel Aviv, and he edited Sefer lutsk (Volume for Lutsk), mostly
in Yiddish (Tel Aviv, 1961), 608 pp. An
essay of his also appeared in Almanakh
fun yidishe shrayber in yisroel (Almanac of Yiddish writers in Israel) (Tel
Aviv, 1962). He published a pamphlet
entitled: Yisroel, problemen un parteyen
(Israel, problems and parties) (Tel Aviv: Mapam, 19658), 89 pp. Sharon’s autobiography, a selection of his
articles, and his bibliography were included in the memorial work: Otobiyografya-kayits 1942
(Autobiography, summer 1942) (Tel Aviv, 1977), 120 pp. He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: N. Feder, in Yisroel
shtime (Tel Aviv) (May 11, 1977); R. Arzi, in Yisroel shtime (June 6, 1979)
Ruvn Goldberg
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