Samuel Shneiderman

Biography

S.L. Shneiderman (15 June 1906 – 8 October 1996) was a prominent Jewish writer, journalist, translator and poet, who wrote in both Yiddish and English.

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 (1980), Tsvishn shrek un hofenung (1947), and Ven di Visl hot geredt Yidish (1970) were among the “1000 Essential Yiddish Books” noted by the Yiddish Book Center. His English books include Between Fear and Hope (1947), The Warsaw Heresy (1959), and The River Remembers (1978).