PINKHES SHMAYER

PINKHES SHMAYER (1904-February 25, 1981)

            He was born in Lodz.  In 1925 he settled in Saarbrücken, Germany.  From 1933 he was in Paris.  He was active in the Bund.  From 1952 he contributed to Unzer shtime (Our voice) in Paris and from 1973 served as its editor.  He died in Paris.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 530.