Sunday 10 November 2019

SHIYE SHPETMAN


SHIYE SHPETMAN (d. May 1964)
            He was born in Lublin and lived for many years in Warsaw.  He was related to Hillel Tsaytlin.  He was a national orator on behalf of Mizrachi in Poland and for a short time the head of a rabbinical college of the Ostrov (Ostrów) Rebbe in Warsaw.  From 1929 until his death, he was rabbi of Nelson Street Shul in London.  He was a regular contributor to the London daily newspaper Tsayt (Times), and he also wrote for other Yiddish newspapers.  He mostly wrote religious texts and treatises in Yiddish, among them: Khevle haneshome umuser hayaades (Sufferings of the soul and the proper behavior of Jews) (Warsaw, 1938), 252 pp.; Kuntres haemes (Commentary on the truth), memoirs, articles, and essays about life, suffering, creations, and Polish Jewry (London, 1942-1944), 6 booklets; Begilufin, fergangene velter (In turn, past world) (London, 1951), 96 pp.; Yontef kuntresim (Holiday commentaries) (London, 1951-1953), 5 booklets; Lekoved rosheshone, yonkiper, khanike (In honor of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Hanukkah), thoughts about Jews and Judaism (London, 1958), 47 pp.  He died in London.

Sources: Arn Tsaytlin, in Tog-morgn-zhurnal (New York) (June 5, 1964); Nakhmen Shemen, in Kender odler (Montreal) (June 5, 1964); D. B. Varshavski, in Dos idishe shul-lebn (London) (September-October 1964).
Yekhezkl Lifshits


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