Shmarye Gorelik

Born in Lokhvytsia, Russian Empire (today in Ukraine) and given an education that combined traditional and maskilic dimensions Shmarye Gorelik moved to Vilna around 1890 and began a writing career contributing to Russian-language newspapers. Initially aligned with The Bund, Gorelik adopted Zionism around 1905. In 1908, he cofounded Literarishe monatsshriftn, a monthly Yiddish literary magazine, with Shmuel Niger and A. Vayter (Ayzik Mayer Devenishki). Gorelik spent the duration of World War I in Switzerland, where he continued to write and was imprisoned for six months. He moved in 1933 to Palestine, where he contributed to several papers, including Ha’aretz. Gorelik later lived in the United States.