TSVI SHNER

TSVI SHNER (1912-August 22, 1984)

            He was born in Lodz.  He lived most of his life in Israel.  He wrote research pieces in the publications of YIVO on such topics as: Jewish labor in industrial undertakings, agricultural lives of Jews, Jewish philanthropic institutions, and Yiddish teachers and students.  He served as editor for a series of Hebrew books concerning the Holocaust and co-edited Dapim leḥeker hashoa vehamered (Pages for the study of the Holocaust and the revolt), 2 vols. (Tel Aviv, 1969, 1973).  He died in Jerusalem.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 532.