GILBERT, SHLOMO

GILBERT, SHLOMO (1885–1942), Yiddish writer. Born in Radzymin to a ḥasidic family, he spent his adult years in Warsaw before perishing in Treblinka. His realistic tales and short dramas, which reflected his own kabbalistic-mystical tendency, appeared from 1907 in the Yiddish journals Haynt and Literarishe Bleter. In addition to the collection Noveln ("Short Stories," 1922), he published "Meshiekhs Trit" ("The Steps of Messiah," 1924), a dramatic poem in three acts in the Hebrew journal Ha-Tekufah, and the comedy, Der Keler ("The Cellar," 1927). A definitive edition of his works appeared in 1954, with an introduction and evaluation by the critic S. Niger\>\> . -BIBLIOGRAPHY: LNYL, 2 (1958), 209ff.; M. Ravitch, Mayn Leksikon, 1 (1945), 52–54. (Melech Ravitch / Edward Portnoy (2nd ed.)