Shverdsharf, Shmuel-Leyb
September 13, 1908[1]-
He was a journalist, born in Plonsk, Poland. He attended a cheder metukan (improved religious elementary school), and he went on to graduate from a Polish middle school and from the law department of Warsaw University. Until mid-1939 he lived in Warsaw and in late 1940 made his way to the United States. From 1949 he was a professor at American University in Washington, D.C.
He wrote for Polish newspapers and from 1927 was an internal contributor to Haynt (Today) and co-editor of the weekly Der Velt-Shpigl (The World Mirror) in Warsaw. He wrote popular science articles, mainly about movies, technology, and economic matters. He published pamphlets on taxes and the like in, among other works: Vekslen un Tsheken (Promissory Notes and Checks) (Warsaw, 1933), 42 pp.
In America he concentrated on political science pieces and published in English on international problems, such as in: Poland: White Eagle on a Red Field (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953), 338 pp.
[1] According to Zalmen Reyzen, 1907.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; Khayim Finkelshteyn, Haynt, a Tsaytung bay Yidn, 1908-1939 (Haynt [Today], a newspaper for Jews, 1908-1939) (Tel Aviv, 1978), pp. 195-97.