SHLOYME
(SHLOMO) DREKSLER (b. December 15, 1911)
He
was born in Jaslowicz, near Czortków, eastern Galicia. He received a traditional education. He studied in a Hebrew pedagogical institute
in Lemberg and in the seminary of R. Tsvi-Perets Khayes (Zwi Perez Chajes) in
Vienna. From his youth until 1927, he
was an active member of “Hashomer hatsair” (Youth guard). From 1931 he was living in Palestine, where
he was a member of the kibbutz “Givat ḥayim” (Hill of life) and of the Mapai
party until it split. He was later one
of the founders of the “Jewish Unity” movement and a member of Mapam from
1948. He was also a member of the
editorial board of Al hamishmar (On
guard). He assumed positions of
responsibility in Israel after statehood, among them with “Hakibuts hameuhad”
(The united kibbutz) and Histadrut. Over
the years 1952-1953, he was living in the United States, where he co-edited the
organ of the left Labor Zionists, Undzer
veg (Our way). In Yiddish he
published articles in Morgn (Morning)
in Lemberg and Dos vort (The word) in
Warsaw. He compiled a Yiddish anthology
of Hebrew literature and translated Avigdor Hameiri’s Dos groyse mishegas (The great madness [original: Hashigaon hagadol]) from Hebrew into
Yiddish. In addition to Yiddish and
Hebrew, he also wrote in German and translated from Hebrew and Yiddish
literature. Among his writings in Hebrew
in book form: Givat ḥayim and Moshavot
sotsialistiyot (Socialist settlements). He was living in Israel.
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