SHLOYME SHAVLER (SOLOMON BUIRSKI) (b. April 4, 1892)
He was
born (with the original surname Boyarski) in Kovno. He studied in the Telz Yeshiva and graduated
from a high school in Libave (Liepāja),
Latvia. He went to attend university in
Berlin and Berne. In 1913 he emigrated
to Johannesburg. Until 1918 he lived in
Prince Albert, from 1925 in Cape Town, and 1930-1961 in Johannesburg; from 1964
he was living in London. He was a
Bundist, later becoming one of the founders of the Communist Party of South
Africa. He wrote a little poetry for Dorem-afrike (South Africa) in
Johannesburg and Sovetish heymland
(Soviet homeland) in Moscow. In book
form: Mayn lite, memuarn fun 1892-1913
(My Lithuania, memoirs from 1892-1913) (Johannesburg: Kayor, 1976), 142
pp. Two subsequent parts were said to be
prepared for publication.
Source: Elvi (Z. Levi), in Dorem-afrike (Johannesburg) (July-August 1976).
Berl Cohen
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