SHOLEM
YEDIDYE (June 29, 1902-June 13, 1979)
This was the adopted name of Sholem
Gotlib (Szulim Gottlieb),
born in Kamyonke (Kamianka), eastern Galicia.
He studied in religious elementary school, yeshiva, and took a Hebrew teachers’
course in Lemberg. There he graduated
from a Polish high school as well and went on to study philosophy at
university. From 1934 he was living in
Warsaw. In 1937 he made a voyage across
Africa and settled in Israel in 1940. He
published reportage pieces in Lemberger
togblat (Lemberg daily newspaper) in 1921.
From 1929 he was co-editor of Moment
(Moment) in Warsaw. From 1934 he edited Radyo (Radio) in Warsaw. Over the years 1940-1952, he was news editor
of Haarets (The land) in Tel
Aviv. He also published (using the pen
name Sh. Varshoy) in Yediot aḥaronot
(Latest news) and Hador (The
generation). In 1953 he was editor of
the Hebrew illustrated weekly newspaper Ḥaye shaa (Life of
the hour). In book form: Tsvishn sinay un zanzibar, togbukh fun a rayze iber mizrekh-afrike (Between
Sinai and Zanzibar, diary of a trip through East Africa) (Warsaw: Literarishe
bleter, 1938), 183 pp. He died in Tel
Aviv.
Sources:
D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of
the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 5 (Tel Aviv, 1952), p.
2231; Dr. R. Feldshuh, Idishe gezelshaftlikher
leksikon (Jewish communal handbook), vol. 1 (Warsaw, 1939), p. 656.
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