SHIMEN ROZENBERG (March 3, 1899-December 21, 1962)
He was
born in Stri (Struj), Galicia. He lived
for a time in Lodz and during WWII in Uzbekistan. He returned to Poland after the war, was
active in the illegal aliya, and in 1950 made aliya to Israel himself. In 1957 he founded with Yoysef Rotenberg the
Y. L. Perets Publishing House to publish Yiddish books. He was active with the left Labor Zionists in
Israel, as he was earlier in Poland. He
wrote about theoretical and party-related political issues in the left Labor
Zionist press: Der lodzher arbeter
(The Lodz worker), editor; Lodzher
yugent-fon (Banner of Lodz youth); Lodzher
fraye yiugnt (Free Lodz youth); Lodzher
arbeter-tsaytung (Lodz workers’ newspaper), both before and after the war; Lodzer folksblat (Lodz people’s
newspaper); in Israel, Nayvelt (New
world) and Folksblat (People’s
newspaper); and Seyfer stri (Volume
for Struj) (Tel Aviv, 1962). In the
memorial volume, Shimen rozenberg,
gedenkbukh (Memorial volume for Shimen Rozenberg) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ.,
1965), there are included selected articles by Rozenberg, as well as memoirs
and portraits. He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: Folksblat
(Tel Aviv) (January 3, 1963); Arbeter
vort (Paris) (April 28, 1967); Khayim Leyb Fuks, Lodzh shel mayle, dos yidishe gaystiḳe un derhoybene lodzh, 100 yor
yidishe un oykh hebreishe literatur un kultur in lodzh un in di arumiḳe shtet
un shtetlekh (Lodz on high, the Jewish spiritual and elevated Lodz, 100
years of Yiddish and also Hebrew literature and culture in Lodz and in the
surrounding cities and towns) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1972), see index.
Ruvn Goldberg
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