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Samuel Leib Shneiderman | |
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 Shneiderman in 1974 | |
| Born | June 15, 1906 Kazimierz Dolny, Russian Empire |
| Died | October 8, 1996 (aged 90) Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Pen name | S.L. Shneiderman, "Emil" |
| Occupation | Yiddish and English-language poet, writer, and journalist |
| Language | English, Polish, Yiddish |
| Years active | 1927-1990 |
| Notable awards | 1970 Bergen Belsen Remembrance Award; 1980 Atran Prize for Yiddish Literature |
| Spouse | Eileen (née Chaja) Szymin-Shneiderman† (1933-1996) |
| Children | Ben Shneiderman (b. 1947), Helen Sarid (née Shneiderman) (b. 1937) |
| Relatives | David Seymour† (brother-in-law) |
S.L. Shneiderman (15 June 1906 – 8 October 1996) was a prominent Polish-American Jewish writer, journalist, translator and poet, who wrote in Yiddish and English.[1][2]
As a journalist, he covered 1930s Paris and reported on the Spanish Civil War before immigrating to the United States in 1940. His works in Yiddish, Arthur Szyk (Tel-Aviv: Farlag Y.L. Perets, 1980); Tsvishn shrek un hofenung (Buenos Ayres: Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1947); and Ven di Visl hot geredt Yidish (Tel Aviv: Y.L. Perets, 1970) were among the “1000 Essential Yiddish Books” noted by the Yiddish Book Center, a prominent American Jewish cultural organization and museum based in Amherst, Massachusetts.[3] His English books include Between Fear and Hope (1947), The Warsaw Heresy (1959), and The River Remembers (1978).
- ^ "S.L. Shneiderman". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
- ^ "The Donors". S.L. and Eileen Shneiderman Collection of Yiddish Books, University of Maryland Libraries. Archived from the original on December 24, 2015. Retrieved June 27, 2023.
- ^ Baker, Zachary (2004). Essential Yiddish Books: 1000 Great Works from the Collection of the National Yiddish Book Center. Amherst, MA: National Yiddish Book Center.
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