YEKHIEL SHNAYD (b. November 2, 1884)
He was
born in Gródek. He received a
traditional Jewish education. He spent the
years 1913-1933 in Berlin. He then fled
to Amsterdam where spent the years of the Holocaust. In 1947 he emigrated to Santiago, Chile. From 1905 he published articles and novellas
in: Sandzer tsaytung (Sącz
newspaper) in 1910, Folks fraynd (Friend
of the people) in Sanok, Lemberger togblat (Lemberg
daily newspaper), Der ekspres (The
express) in London (1912), Der tog (The day)
in Cracow, Dos idishe vort (The
Jewish word) in Toronto, and elsewhere.
He edited Lemberg’s Folks fraynd (brought
by Avrom Shenbakh from Sanok together with its supplements, Der
idisher soykher [The Jewish businessman] and Der
azes ponem [The insolent one]).
In book form: Di velt, populere astronomy mit ilustratsyes (The
word, popular astronomy with illustration) (Lemberg: Folks fraynd, 1912), 71
pp. Among his pen names: Ish Lizensk, Y.
Sh., Y-l Sh-d, and Lats.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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