Sam Simchovitch

Sam Simchovitch was born in Otwock, Poland in 1921. During World War II, he lived in the USSR, then returned to Poland, and emigrated to Canada in 1949. He received a B.A. in Humanities from Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, and a Master's in Hebrew Literature from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. Until his retirement in 1988 he was librarian and curator of the Beth Tzedec Museum in Toronto.

Awards
Harry and Florence Topper Award for Creative Yiddish Writing, Book Committee, Toronto Jewish Congress, 1990.
Dr. Hirsh and Deborah Rosenfield Award for Yiddish Literature, I.J. Segal Culture Foundation, 1991.
Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Award for Creative Writing in Poetry, Book Committee, Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, 1992.
Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Award for Excellence in Yiddish Writing, Book Committee, Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, 1993.
Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Award for Original Translation. Jewish Community Centre, Toronto, 1995.
Harry and Florence Topper/Milton Shier Prize for original Translation from Yiddish, 1997.
Izzy and Betty Kirschenbaum Foundation Prize in Yiddish, 1998.
Zhitlowski Award for Writers of High Quality, given by the Yiddish Culture Association (YIKUF), New York, 1998.
Izzy and Betty Kirschenbaum Foundation Prize for Yiddish Translation in the Remnant (Mosaic Press, 1999), Jewish Book Award, Toronto, 2000.
Izzy and Betty Kirshenbaum Foundation Award for Yiddish Translation of The Song That Never Died, 2002.

Selected Publications
Thus a Youth Perished (Yiddish). (Writers' Committee, 1950).
In Hour of Prayer (Yiddish). (Canadian Jewish Congress, 1958).
Solomon Maimon: His Personality and Attitude Towards Judaism (Hebrew). (Machberot Lesifrut, 1971).
Sorrow and Consolation: Collected Poems (Yiddish). (Adler Publishing, 1989).
Selected Poems. (Mosaic Press, 1990).
Blendiker Harbst (Luminous Autumn): Yiddish Poems. (Book Fund, 1990).
Stepchild on the Vistula (Yiddish novel). (Privately published, 1992; English translation by Lugus Publications, 1994).
A Song Will Remain. Poems. (Lugus Publications, 1996).
Funken in Zhar (Sparks in Embers). Yiddish Poems. (Book Fund, 1997).
The Remnant, Poems (Mosaic Press, 1999).
The Song That Never Died: The Poetry of Mordecai Gebertig (Mosaic Press, 2001).
Out of the Abyss, Collected Poems (S. Simchovitch Book Fund, Toronto, 2003)
After the Blood Inundation, Yiddish Essays (Book Fund, 2004).

Selected Anthologies
Rocks and Rhythm, An Anthology of Contemporary Canadian Verse, ed. by Lenny Everson (Ontario Poetry Society, 2003).
We Are Tops (Ontario Poetry Society), volume 4, Nos. 1, 2.

Books in Print
Simchovitch, Sam
A Song Will Remain. Lugus Publishers, 1996. $18.95 ISBN 1-896266-30-4.
Selected Poems. Mosaic Press, 1990. $12.95 ISBN: 0-88962-462-3.
Out of the Abyss, Collected Poems (S. Simchovitch Book Fund, Toronto, 2003) $20.00.