SHOYEL
LEVIN (1856-1938)
He was born in Vilna,
Lithuania. Until 1919 he was a private
tutor in Vilna, and he then settled in Lomzhe. Until the age of seventy-six, he lived as an
assimilated Jew, but in 1932 under the influence of rising anti-Semitism, he
became active in the Zionist movement.
He was a member of the editorial board of Lomzher shtime (Voice of Lomzhe) (1923-1938), in which, aside from
articles about popular science, he also published poems, fables, and
translations from German and Russian (also under the pen name Halevi). He also wrote for Dos naye leben (The new life) in Bialystok and Voliner shtime (Voice of Volhynia), as well as for a series of
provincial Yiddish newspapers. He died
in Lomzhe.
Sources:
Lomzher shtime (July 19, 1938);
Yom-Tov Levinski, in the anthology Lomzhe
(New York, 1957), p. 232.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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