Sunday 13 November 2016

SHIYE TSHEKHEVER (SZIE CZECHEWER)

SHIYE TSHEKHEVER (SZIE CZECHEWER) (b. January 15, 1900)
            The adopted name of Shiye Goldberg, he was born in Tshekhev (Czechów), Poland.  He came from a poor family.  He survived the ghetto, Majdanek, and the partisans.  Over the years 1945-1950, he was in survivors’ camps in Germany, later leaving for the United States and in 1970 for Israel.  In book form: Neshome likht, heym un khurbn (Candle of the soul, home and destruction), with a preface by Y. Kh. Biletski (Tel Aviv: Nay-lebn, 1979), 274 pp., translated into Hebrew in 1981 by Z. Libna and Y. Bekerman [as Nerot neshama, bayit veḥurban (Tel Aviv, 1981), and into English as The Undefeated (Tel Aviv, 1985) by Shiye Goldberg].

Sources: M. Tsanin, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (August 1, 1980); M. Avi-Shlomo, in Al hamishmar (Tel Aviv) (September 18, 1981).
Ruvn Goldberg

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 289.


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