Shikhatov, Shaye
February 1, 1896-
SHAYE SHIKHATOV () (b. )
He was born in Rovne (Rovno), Volhynia. He attended religious elementary school until age eight and later graduated from a Russian middle school. From 1917 he was active in the Bund. He survived the war years in Uzbekistan. He returned to Poland in 1945; in 1948 he moved to Sweden, in 1951 to Montreal, and in 1957 he settled in Los Angeles.
He began writing frequently from 1948 in: Unzer Tsayt (Our Time), Tsukunft (Future), Veker (Awakener), and Folk un Velt (People and World)—in New York; Foroys (Arise) in Mexico City; Lebns-Fragn (Life Issues) in Tel Aviv; Unzer Gedank (Our Idea) in Buenos Aires; Unzer Shtime (Our Voice) in Paris; and Tsayt-Fragn (Issues of the Day) in Montevideo.
In book form: Yorn fun Kamf un Gerangl (Years of Fighting and Struggling) (Tel Aviv: Lior, 1973), 706 pp.