ARN BROMBERG

ARN BROMBERG (1886-January 8, 1953)

He was born in Ostrowce, Poland.  His father, although a misnoged (anti-Hassidic), was an employee of the Gerer Rebbe.  Around 1910 he emigrated to the United States.  He studied at the University of Toronto, Canada.  He was one of the pioneer teachers in the Workmen’s Circle Schools in Toronto, Detroit, and Syracuse.  He later settled in New York, where he continued his pedagogical work.  He introduced into the Jewish secular schools celebratory Jewish High Holidays and Kabbalat Shabbat service (Friday evening).  He virtually alone created the materials for his lectures, and he left behind textbooks in manuscript.  Only after his death was his book published: Khumesh-mayses far kinder (Bible stories for children), published by a group of his friends (New York, 1954), 96.

Sources: Y. Mark, in Kultur un dertsiung (Culture and education) (January 1953); Mark, introduction to Khumesh-mayses; obituary notices in Yorbukh fun semeteri-department fun arbeter-ring (Annual of the Cemetery Department of the Workmen’s Circle) (1953); Bleter far yidisher dertsiung 5 (April-July 1953).