Sheynfeld, Avrom
February 11, 1904–August 1972
approx. 68 years
He was born in Bucharest. His father was a community rabbi in Romania. In 1948 he departed for Paris and in 1951 for New York.
He wrote a great deal for Romanian newspapers. In 1922 he began translating revue plays for the Yiddish theater in Bucharest; he wrote for the Romanian Jewish humorist Ion Fribeagn (Itsik Lazarovitsh). Such plays include: Bay undz in Bukaresht (With Us in Bucharest), Men Lebt un Men Lakht (People Live and Laugh), Okum fakus (?), and others.
He also published articles in: the daily newspaper Unzer Vort (Our Word) in Paris; and Tog (Day) and Amerikaner (American) in New York, on Hassidic life in Romania in the past.
He died in New York.