AKIVE SHMULEVITSH

AKIVE SHMULEVITSH (b. November 11, 1903)

            He was born in Dobromil (Dobromyl’), Galicia.  He emigrated to the United States after WWI.  He debuted in print with a articles in Idishe velt (Jewish world) in Philadelphia; later, he published pieces in Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Tel Aviv and Forverts (Forward) in New York.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 556.