Sho, Ben-Tsien
May 25, 1883–July 1957
approx. 74 years
He was a poet, born in Byelsk, Grodno Province. His original surname was Shostak. He was a cloth manufacturer in Bialystok. He was in Russia 1917-1918, and in 1926 he emigrated to Chicago.
He published poems in Chicago’s Idisher Kuryer (Jewish Courier) and publications of Bialystokers in the United States.
In book form: Folks Gezang, Dray Naye Lider (Folk Song, Three New Poems) (Pyotrkov, 1904/1905), 14 pp., using the pen name Sh. A.—authorship needs clarification; and Geklibene Lider (Selected Poems) (Chicago, 1948), 333 pp.
He died in Chicago.