ZALMEN SHLOSER

ZALMEN SHLOSER (b. January 17, 1905)

            He was born in Govrove (Goworowo), Poland.  He came to New York in 1920.  In 1926 he graduated from the Jewish teachers’ seminary in New York, and he later taught in schools run by Workmen’s Circle in the United States.  He went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley (1929-1932).  In 1940 he settled in Atlanta, moving later to Los Angeles.  From 1970 he was a regular contributor to the quarterly Kheshbn (Accounting) in Los Angeles and served as its editor (1979-1984).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 529.