Sh. Horonczyk

The Yiddish novelist Sh. (Shimen) Horonczyk grew up in a Hasidic family in and around Kalisz, Poland, and lived in Lódz during World War I. In the 1930s he moved to France and Belgium, later settling in Warsaw. At the start of World War II, Horonczyk fled Warsaw and committed suicide in the town of Kaluszyn. Horonczyk’s despondent writings about World War I characterize the decline of Polish Jewish values under the German occupation, and his works from the 1920s and 1930s realistically describe the dire situations of working-class Jews.