Thursday, 8 November 2018

SHMUEL FYERT


SHMUEL FYERT (b. 1911)
            He was born in Proskurov, Ukraine.  In 1923 he made his way to Argentina.  He studied in the Borokhov school in Buenos Aires.  He later worked in a publishing house.  He debuted in print in 1929 in the children’s corner of Di idishe tsaytung (The Jewish newspaper) in Buenos Aires.  He contributed to: Antologye fun der yidisher literatur in argentine (Anthology of Jewish literature in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1944).  In book form: Shterndlekh, mayselekh far kinder (Asterisks, stories for children) (Buenos Aires, 1935), 100 pp.; Mentshelekh afn papir, andere shterndlekh mayselekh far kinder (Little people on paper, other asterisks, stories for children) (Buenos Aires, 1937), 96 pp.; In dem land fun di khayes, mayselekh far kinder (In the land of animals, stories for children) (Buenos Aires, 1938), 98 pp.  He was last living in the state of Israel.

Sources: Sh. Rozhanski, Dos yidishe gedrukte vort in argentine (The published Yiddish word in Argentina), vol. 1 (Buenos Aires, 1941), pp. 140, 174; V. Bresler, Antologye fun der yidisher literatur in argentine (Anthology of Jewish literature in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1944), p. 921; Y. Botoshanski, in Algemeyne entsiklopedye (General encyclopedia), “Yidn 5” (New York, 1957); Botoshanski, in Zamlbukh (Buenos Aires) (1961), p. 294.
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