SHLOYME BELSKI

SHLOYME BELSKI (1890-June 28, 1972)

            He was born in Nova-yelna, Grodno district.  In 1904 he emigrated to New York, and in 1921 settled in Los Angeles.  He was active in leftist circles.  He debuted in print in 1916 with a poem in Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor).  He wrote poetry for the California periodicals: Mayrev (West), Zunland (Land of sun), Baym pasifik (By the Pacific), and Der bekher (The cup).  He also published in Frayhayt (Freedom) and Morgn frayhayt (Morning freedom) in New York.  He died in Los Angeles.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 97.