Shiloni, Shiye
February 12, 1894[1]-May 26, 1965
He was a journalist, translator, and author of stories, born in Druzhkopol’, Volhynia. His surname was a Hebraized form of Shlayen. He studied in religious elementary school and in the yeshivas of Kishinev and Slabodka. In 1920 he moved to Lemberg. He worked as a Hebrew teacher in the cities of Galicia.
He survived the world war in a Ukrainian village disguised as a priest’s assistant. Over the years 1945-1949, he was in Lodz and refugee camps in Germany, before moving to Israel.
From 1920 he began writing articles and stories for: Lemberg’s Togblat (Daily Newspaper) and Morgn (Morning); Unzer Ekspres (Our Express) in Warsaw; Dos Naye Lebn (The New Life) in Lodz-Warsaw; Tsienistishe Shriftn (Zionist Writings) in Munich (1947-1948); and Haynt (Today) and Letste Nayes (Latest News) in Israel; among others.
He also published in Polish and Hebrew. He translated a great deal from Yiddish into Hebrew and from Hebrew into Yiddish, including:
Yitskhok Grinboym, Pene hador (Faces of the Generation) Jerusalem, 1957-1960), 2 vols., as Fun Mayn Dor (Of My Generation) (Tel Aviv: Makor, 1959), 518 pp.;
Anne Frank, Togbukh fun a Meydl (Diary of a Young Girl) (Tel Aviv: Hamenorah, 1958), 322 pp.
He also published a volume about his experiences during the Holocaust: Eyner hot zikh Geratevet (One Escaped) (Tel Aviv: Makor, 1959), 189 pp., published earlier in Hebrew as Eḥad shenimlat (One Who Escaped) (Tel Aviv, 1955), 158 pp.
His pen names included: Yehoshua Cohen, Sh. L. Ayin, Y. Sheni, and Antoni Pavlovitsh.
He died in Tel Aviv.
[1] According to his autobiography; Kressel give his birth year as 1899.
Sources: Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Lexicon of Hebrew Literature), vol. 2 (Merḥavya, 1967); Yoysef Gar, in Fun Nonentn Over (New York) 3 (1957), pp. 173-75.