SHMAYA
AVNI (b. February 13, 1923)
He was born in Strimtere
(Stramtura), Carpathian Russia. His
surname at birth was Shteynmets. He
studied in religious elementary school and in yeshivas. From 1960 he was living in Israel. From time to time he published stories,
reportage pieces, and articles in Tsukunft
(Future) in New York and Letste nayes
(Latest news) in Tel Aviv. One representative
story of his appeared in Almanakh fun
yidishe shrayber in yisroel (Annual of Yiddish writers in Israel) (Tel
Aviv, 1962, 1967); and another in M. Ḥalamish’s
Mikan umikarov (From near and far)
(Merḥavya, 1966). His main work has been
in Hebrew and a small portion in Romanian.
Sources:
Y. Paner, in Tsukunft (New York)
(September 1966); Sh. Kants, in Letste
nayes (Tel Aviv) (April 29, 1977).
Rueven Goldberg
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