Shmuel Eliashiv

Shmoel Elyashiv (; born Shmuel Fridman, October 11, 1899, Pinsk, Russian Empire – June 20, 1955) was an Israeli diplomat and writer.

Biography Elyashiv was raised in Kovno. He studied jurisprudence in Moscow and Kyiv, graduated in Kharkiv in 1921. In 1927, he received his doctorate in political science from the University of Toulouse and in 1928, was practicing as a jurist in Kovno. Elyashiv was chairman of the central committee of the Zionist Socialist Party from 1927 until 1934, when he emigrated to Palestine. and Budapest, Hungary from 1950 until 1951. He was a member of the Israeli delegation to the United Nations in 1950 and 1952 and served as Israel's ambassador to Moscow, 1951–1955.,

Literary career Elyashiv became a prominent analyst of Soviet literature during the early Cold War period. His 1953 monograph Hasifrut hasovyetit hachadashah examined ideological shifts in post-Stalinist Soviet writing, with a focus on state censorship mechanisms and adaptations of socialist realism. The work drew from primary sources, including transcripts of Soviet Writers' Union congresses and firsthand interviews with émigré authors. From 1952 to 1955, he delivered a lecture series at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem analyzing parallels between Soviet and Zionist literary nation-building narratives.

Literary works (The Histadrut) (Tel Aviv, 1947) (textbook) (Ukrainian motifs), short stories (Berlin-Paris, 1926) (Paris: Librairie Generale de Droit and de Jurisprudence, 1927) (Impressions of a journey) (Tel Aviv, 1951), (New Soviet literature) (Tel Aviv, 1953)