Samuel Hirszhorn

Samuel Hirszhorn (1876 – May 28, 1942) was a Jewish Polish writer, journalist, and politician.

Life Hirszhorn was born in 1876 in Slonim, the Grodno Governorate, Russia to a well-to-do family.

In 1916, Hirszhorn was a founder of the Folkspartei in Poland and was elected to the Warsaw City Council under that party in 1916. In the 1919 election, he was elected a delegate of the Legislative Sejm. He contributed to various Jewish periodicals in both Polish and Yiddish. His translations of Jewish poetry included an anthology of Hayim Nahman Bialik's poems in 1917 and a collection of poems by 60 Jewish poems called Anthologia Poezji Żydowskiej in 1921. Among his best-known literary works was The History of Jews in Poland from the Four-year Sejm until the World War, 1788-1914, which was published in 1923 in Polish and was later translated into Yiddish.

Hirszhorn was in the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. He kept a diary in the Ghetto that was lost. He committed suicide with poison during an Aktion on May 28, 1942.