LEYB SHUR
He was a
publisher, by profession a typesetter and mechanic of linotype machines. He worked as a typesetter for Moment (Moment) in Warsaw. With his earnings he established the
publishing house of Tomor which focused on publishing masterpieces of Yiddish
and general literature, such as: Yisroel Tsinberg’s Di geshikhte fun der literatur bay yidn (The history of Jewish
literature), Max Weinreich’s Shturemvint,
bilder fun der yidisher geshikhte in
zibtsntn yorhundert (Strom wind, images from Jewish history in the
seventeenth century); Solomon Maimon’s Lebn-geshikhte
(Life history); and Zalmen Shneur, Noyekh
pandre (Noah Pandre). He was
confined in the Warsaw Ghetto with several friends, and they dug beneath the
the large library sealed by the Nazis and carried out a number of books. When his home later had to be on the Aryan
side, he hanged himself among the bookshelves.
Sources: Perets Guterman, in Unzer shtime (Paris) (October 19, 1964); Yeshurin
archive, YIVO (New York).
Berl Cohen
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