Friday, 9 November 2018

SALO FISHGRUND (FISCHGRUND)


SALO FISHGRUND (FISCHGRUND) (September 7, 1893-March 4, 1971)
            He was born in Sulkovitse (Sułkowice), near Cracow, Galicia.  From 1908 he was active in the Bund.  In 1939 he left for the Soviet-occupied zone.  He was arrested there.  He returned to Poland in the autumn of 1941, and he remained in Warsaw until liberation.  He was a member of the underground central committee of the Bund and took part in the uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto.  During the “unification” of the socialist parties in Poland (1948), he switched to join the Communists.  He was a member of the leadership of the “Jewish Cultural Association” of Poland.  He began writing for Sotsyal-demokrat (Social democrat) in Cracow in 1908.  Over the years 1922-1939, he was the Cracow correspondent for Naye folkstsaytung (New people’s newspaper) in Warsaw.  He contributed to the Bundist underground press in Poland.  From 1945 he was publishing articles in: Dos naye lebn (The new life), Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper), Yidishe shriftn (Yiddish writings), and Folks-shtime (Voice of the people), among others, in Warsaw.  In 1970 he moved to Israel.

Sources: Materials from the Bundist archives, New York; Pinkhes Shvarts, Yidishe prese in varshe (The Yiddish press in Warsaw) (New York, 1956), p. 437.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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