Tsaler, Sholem
March 13, 1918–
He was born in Stanislav, Galicia. He attended the local yeshiva Or-Tora (Light of the Torah) and received ordination into the rabbinate. He later studied at the Hebrew teachers’ seminary in Lemberg and in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem (1938-1943).
He began writing in Hebrew, publishing poems in Hasolel (The Paver) in Lemberg. He also contributed to Lemberg’s Morgn (Morning), in which he published a novel entitled Di Blondzhende Yugnt (The Wandering Youth).
From 1937 to 1957, he lived in Israel, thereafter in Montreal, Canada, where he was a teacher in a Hebrew school.
He published three novels: Zina (Zina) in Toronto’s Yidisher Zhurnal (Jewish Journal); and Mit Blut un Fayer (With Blood and Fire) and Di Draysik Teg (The Thirty Days) in Montreal’s Keneder Adler (Keneder Odler, Canadian Eagle). In manuscript, he was writing a novel entitled Lebn in Trern (Life in Tears)—concerning the rise of the State of Israel.
He was last living in Israel (1968).