Shteynberg, Yisroel
March 3, 1894–November 8, 1970
He was born in Vonsove (Wąsowo), Poland. He studied in religious elementary school and yeshiva, later graduating from the state pedagogical course of study in Lomzhe. He worked as a teacher in Ostrov-Mazovyetsk (Ostrów-Mazowiecka).
He spent WWII in the Soviet Union. After the war he was in Vrotslav (Wrocław) and from 1950 in Israel.
His books include:
Kinder-Lider un Retenishn (Children’s Poems and Puzzles) (Wrocław: Nidershlezye, 1948), 19 pp.;
Hebreizmen in der Yidisher Shprakh (Hebraisms in the Yiddish Language), with A. Roykhverger (Wrocław: Nidershlezye, 1949), 334 pp.;
Mimayan haḥokhma shel am yisrael / Khokhme fun Yidishn Kval, pitgamim, maamre ḥazal veimrot / Aforizmen, Maymore Khazal un Glaykhverṭer (Wisdom from Jewish Sources, Aphorisms, Sayings of the Sages, and Witticisms) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1962), 405 pp.;
Psukim un Taytshn (Verses and Explanations) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1969), 303 pp.
In Hebrew: Penine ḥokhma (Pearls of Wisdom) (Tel Aviv, 1966), 467 pp.
He died in Tel Aviv.
Sources: David Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the Pioneers and Builders of the Yishuv), vol. 14 (Tel Aviv, 1965); Yankev Glatshteyn, in Tog-Morgn-Zhurnal (New York) (September 16, 1962); Yanos Turkov, in Folksblat (Tel Aviv) (March 14, 1973).