LEYZER SHTEYN

LEYZER SHTEYN (b. July 12, 1895)

            He was born with the surname Shteynberg in Vilna.  He attended religious elementary schools and graduated from a Russian public school.  He lived in Canada, the United States, and from 1962 Israel.  He wrote articles for: Forverts (Forward), Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper), and Problemen (Problems) (Tel Aviv).  He also penned the pamphlet: Der emes vegn prezident ruzvelts tetikeyt beysn natsi-kataklizm (The truth about President Roosevelt’s activities at the time of the Nazi cataclysm) (Tel Aviv, 1974), 24 pp.  He also wrote under the names Louis Shteyn and Eliezer Even.  He was last living in Tel Aviv.

Ruvn Goldberg