Shvartsburg, Arye-Leyb
December 26, 1886–August 13, 1949
The author of stories, he was born in Babruysk, Byrelorussia. He attended religious elementary schools and yeshivas in Berezin (Byerazino), Minsk, and Telz. Over the years 1920-1927, he lived in eastern Siberia, where he became acquainted with the wild tribes there. In 1914 he came to the United States. He worked as a Hebrew teacher and was later a dentist.
In 1910 he began writing in Russian periodicals. From 1914 he wrote stories and articles in: Tsukunft (Future), Forverts (Forward), Tog (Day), Morgn-Zhurnal (Morning Journal), Di Tsayt (The Times), Der Amerikaner (The American), Dos Idishe Folk (The Jewish People), Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor), Feder (Pen), Nyu-Yorker Vokhnblat (New York Weekly Newspaper), Shikago (Chicago), and Keneder Adler (Keneder Odler, Canadian Eagle), among others.
In book form:
Der Khurbn fun Mayn Shtetl un Ire Kdoyshim (The Destruction of My Hometown and its Martyrs) (New York, 1934), 40 pp.;
In Thom, Sibirer Dertseylungen (At the Abyss, Siberian Stories) (New York: TSIKO, 1951), 295 pp.
He also wrote a few poems in Hebrew. His work appeared in Nokhum Shteynberg’s Yidish Amerike (Yiddish America) (New York, 1929).
He died in Brooklyn.
Sources: Shmuel Niger, in Tog (New York) (April 5, 1952); A. Mukdoni, in Morgn-Zhurnal (New York) (April 27, 1952).