Thursday, 1 August 2019

LEON SHVARTS


LEON SHVARTS
            He was the author of Khanele af yener velt (Little Hannah in the other world) (Pyotrkov: Libeskind, 1903/1904), 18 pp.  His poems were adapted to well-known melodies in: Der raykher ugast (The wealthy August) (Pyotrkov, 1905); Di frume merderin, oder mariye in tyurme (The pious murderess, or Maria in prison), “an extremely interesting story,” part 2 (Pyotrkov: Sh. Belkhatovski, 1905), 15 pp.  The latter was added to the end of the novel Der toyt fun augostin (The death of Augustin) (unseen).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 518.



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