JULIAN SHVARTS (May 15, 1910-October 19, 1977)
The
brother of Itsik Shvarts (Y. Kara) and Simkhe Shvarts, he was born in Podeloy (Podu Iloaiei), Romania. His Jewish first name was Sholem. He received a traditional Jewish
education. In Jassy (Iași)
he completed a four-level high school.
From 1924 he was active in Yiddish theater, first in Iași and later
in Bucharest, directed drama circles, performed himself, and translated plays
into Yiddish and Romanian. He wrote
one-act plays, while at the same time collecting Jewish folklore and folk art
(such a tombstones). In 1926 he began
publishing biographies and translation into Romanian for Romanian Jewish
newspapers, in 1933 in Tshernovitser
bleter (Czernowitz pages) and from 1945 in almost all Yiddish newspapers in
Romania; also in Folks-shtime (Voice
of the people) in Warsaw; Naye prese (New
press) in Paris; and Yidishe shprakh (Yiddish language), Kultur un lebn (Culture and life), Yidishe kultur (Jewish culture), and Morgn frayhayt (Morning freedom) in New
York; among others. In book form: 15 yidishe folklorizirte lider (Fifteen
Yiddish folkloric poems) (Bucharest: IKUF, 1946), 16 pp.; Der farkishefter shrayber (The enchanted writer), a one-act play
(Bucharest: Far unzere dramkrayzn, 1947), 20 pp.; Literarishe dermonungen (Literary reminiscences) (Bucharest:
Kriteryon, 1975), 213 pp.; Portretn un
eseyen (Portraits and essays) (Bucharest, 1979), 264 pp. He died in Bucharest.
Sources: Sholem Shtern, in Yidishe kultur (New York) 7 (1976); D. Matis, in Forverts (New York) (August 29, 1976);
A. Forsher, in Forverts (September
12, 1976); Elye (Elias) Shulman, in Di
prese (Buenos Aires) (October 26, 1976); Y. Kara, Yunge
yorn un…veyniker yunge, album-bleter (Years of youth and…younger years,
pages from an album) (Bucharest, 1980), pp. 194-97.
Ruvn Goldberg
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