SHIMON
(SHIMEN) GENS (November 11, 1907-August 19, 1967)
He was born in Rumshishek (Rumsiskis),
Lithuania. He studied in religious
elementary school, later graduating from a Hebrew high school in Kovno. He studied law and philosophy at Kovno
University. In 1935 he settled in
Israel. He began writing in Hebrew for Galim (Waves) in Kovno, later writing
about literature and theater for Yiddish newspapers in Kovno: Di yidishe shtime (The Jewish voice), Dos vort (The word), and Folksblat (People’s newspaper); as well
as for the Hebrew magazines Netivot
(Pathways) and Pesaḥ (Passover), and
for the Israeli journals Ketuvim
(Writings) and Turim (Rows). In Tel Aviv, he contributed to: Haarets (The land), Al hamishmar (On guard), and Davar
(Word). Among his books: Hitler kore batanakh (Hitler reads the
Bible) (Tel Aviv, 1940), 70 pp.; a translation from Russian into Hebrew of Mikhail
Vasil’evich Vodopianov’s Polyus (The
pole) as Tayase hakotev (Artic
pilots) (Tel Aviv, 1940), 246 pp. He edited
the journal Petaḥ (Portal) and the anthology Paam (Pace) in Kovno, 1938. Among his pseudonyms: Sh. Sagan, G. Shimon, and
Shimon Gan. He was living in Israel and died in Tel Aviv.
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