Shvarts, Avrom
June 20, 1902–June 15, 1964
61 years
He was a journalist, born in Petrile (Petrila), Transylvania. He attended religious elementary school and yeshiva, and later a Klausenburg Tarbut high school. In 1924 he moved to Uruguay. He worked as a shoemaker, later becoming a professional journalist.
Over the years 1933-1963, he served as editor of the daily Folksblat (People’s Newspaper) in Montevideo, and a short time later he wrote for Haynt (Today) in Montevideo.
He died in Montevideo.
Source: Yitskhok Vaynshenker, Boyers un Mitboyers fun Yidishn Yishev in Urugvay (Founders and Builders of the Jewish Community in Uruguay) (Montevideo: Zrie, 1957).