BEN-TSIEN SHO (May 25, 1883-July 1957)
He was a
poet, born in Byelsk, Grodno Province. His
original surname was Shostak. He was a
cloth manufacturer in Bialystok. He was
in Russia 1917-1918, and in 1926 he emigrated to Chicago. He published poems in Chicago’s Idisher kuryer (Jewish courier) and publications
of Bialystokers in the United States. In
book form: Folks gezang, dray naye lider
(Folk song, three new poems) (Pyotrkov, 1904/1905), 14 pp., using the pen name
Sh. A.—authorship needs clarification; and Geklibene
lider (Selected poems) (Chicago, 1948), 333 pp. He died in Chicago.
Beyle Gottesman
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