AVROM SHTILMAN (SZTYLMAN) (b. February 5, 1903)
He was
born in Novo-Ushitsa (Novo-Ushytsya), Podolia, descended from a Hassidic family. He attended religious elementary school and
yeshiva, and he went on to graduate from a Russian high school in Kishinev. In 1925 he moved to Montreal, where in 1931
he completed his medical degree. He
began writing poetry that year for Keneder
odler (Canadian eagle) in Montreal. He
published a regular medical column there as well until 1965. In a jubilee volume of the newspaper, he
published research on the state of the health of Jews in Montreal over a period
of fifty years (1907-1957), and inter
alia on Jewish doctors there. In
book form: Layb un lebn, geshprekhn fun a doktor iber layblekh-noente
inyonim (The body and life, conversations with a doctor on personal matters),
popular medical articles (Warsaw, 1932), 298 pp. He also published for four volumes of stories
in English.
Sources: Y. Y. Sigal, in Keneder odler (Montreal) (November 27, 1927); Tsemekh Shabad, in Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) 52 (1932);
Yisroel Rabinovitsh, in Keneder odler
(December 28, 1959).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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