SHOLEM-ALTER
EFTER (1861-October 19, 1938)
He hailed from Ukraine, the son of a
rabbi. Until age nineteen he studied in
yeshivas, thereafter departing for Bessarabia and becoming a cantor in the city
synagogue in Telenești. In 1919 he arrived in the land of
Israel. He lived in Jerusalem and Tel
Aviv and supported his family through work.
He was the author of Yiddish and Hebrew storybooks and poetry on
contemporary themes. In book form, among
others: Arbayter betrug (Labor fraud)
and Sipur nifla (A wonderful story)
(Tel Aviv-Jerusalem, 1925-1928), each 20 pp.
A number of his poems from the era of the third aliya were republished
in the anthology Haifa 4 (Haifa 4) (1967). He died in Tel Aviv.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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