SHIYE NOVIK

SHIYE NOVIK (b. 1896)

            He studied in religious elementary school.  Over the years 1921-1923, he lived in Argentina.  In 1924 he moved to New York, where he turned his attention to carpentry.  From 1943 he was living in Los Angeles.  He wrote articles for: Di prese (The press) in Buenos Aires; Kalifornyer shriftn (California writings); and mainly for Morgn-frayhayt (Morning freedom) in New York.  He usually wrote under the pen name “S. Boyman.”

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), cols. 386-87.

(See the effective identical entry for “S. Boyman”: http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2016/01/s-boyman.html)