ST. GELBART

ST. GELBART (b. 1907)

            He was born in Lodz, Poland, into a well-to-do family.  He graduated from the local Yiddish-Hebrew high school and the Warsaw college of journalism.  He was active in the Zionist youth movement.  He spent the years of WWII in Russia.  In 1946, during the repatriation of Polish citizens from Russia, he returned to Poland and was active in “Hashomen hatsair” (Young guardians).

            He began writing for Lodzher tageblat (Lodz daily newspaper) in 1924—articles concerning theater and art.  He contributed also to the weekly Fraytog (Friday) in Lodz-Warsaw, Poylisher mantshester (Polish Manchester) in Lodz, and other serials.  During the discontinuation of Lodzher tageblat, he moved over to the Polish press, but when he returned from Russia, he began again to write in Yiddish and published articles on literary and artistic matters in the Yiddish-Hebrew weekly newspaper Mishmar (Guard) in Lodz (1946-1948) and in Yidishe shriftn (Jewish writings) in Lodz (1947-1949).

Source: Kh. L. Fuks, in Fun noentn over 3 (New York, 1957).