Leib Malach

Leib Salzman (; November 27, 1894 – June 18, 1936), known by the pen name Leib Malach (, ), was a Polish-Jewish writer, playwright, and poet, who wrote primarily in Yiddish.

Biography Malach was born in Zwoleń, Russian Empire. He learned at a cheder from age seven to nine, and then at a beth midrash, until mother died when he was ten. His father, Rafael-Mendl Zaltsman, an Amshinov Hasid, abandoned him and remarried. He was then raised by his maternal grandfather, Chaim Tenenboym, a dayan. He became an assistant teacher in his hometown, and later in Radom. He lived in Israel from 1934 to 1935, with Labor Zionists, before returning to Paris, where he became ill and died while having an operation at the Rothschild Hospital in 1936. He is buried in the Bagneux Cemetery

Works

Malach published numerous poems, plays, songs, ballads, and books: Three (1915) In Poland (poem, 1919) Opfal (play, 1922) Lidlekh (book, 1922) Meshlekh (book, 1922) Der zhabe-kenig (play, 1922) Der vilder printz (play, 1922) Dos gorn shtibl (1924) Ibergus (1926) Shtendik-keinmol (1926) Leybele tentser (1927) Shtendik--keinmol (1928) Petronius (1928) Der kritiker mitn sharfn oyg (1929) Don Domingo's Crusade (1930) Foystn (play, 1931) Delegate Doctor Ferfl (1932) Mississippi (play, 1935)