BINYUMIN
(BENJAMIN) GEBINER (June 25, 1898-February 7, 1997)
He was born in Rovno, Volhynia. He studied in religious primary school and in
a Russian Hebrew high school, and he graduated from a Russian state high
school. He studied law at the
Universities of Odessa and Kiev. From
1922 he was living in the United States, where he studied journalism and
graduated as a lawyer. He was a leader
in the Jewish labor and socialist movements.
Over the years 1930-1936, he was the general secretary of the Jewish Socialist
Union. He was the executive secretary,
1924-1936, of the Jewish Workers Committee.
From 1937 he was assistant secretary of the Workmen’s Circle. He was active in the Jewish Workers
Committee, ORT (Association for the Promotion of
Skilled Trades), YIVO, Jewish Culture
Congress, Jewish Socialist Union, the Forward Association, and others. For twelve years he was a teacher at an
elementary school and at the middle school of Workmen’s Circle in New
York. From 1949 he had a daily radio
commentary on WEVD in New York.
He began writing for Der
emigrant (The emigrant) in Warsaw (1919).
He contributed to Bagrayfung
(Comprehension), organ of the left Youth Zionists in Warsaw (1919-1922). He also contributed to: Forverts (Forward), Tsukunft
(Future), Der veker (The alarm), and Der fraynd (The friend) in New York; and
Di shtime (The voice) in Mexico;
among others. He published as well in The Call, English-language organ of the
Workmen’s Circle, and in publications of the trade union movement in
America. He edited Veker (Alarm), organ of the Jewish Socialist Union (1930-1934). From 1937 he was managing editor of Fraynd, organ of the Workmen’s Circle in
New York.
Sources: Y. Sh. Herts, 50 yor arbeter-ring in yidishn lebn
(Fifty years of the Workmen’s Circle in Jewish life) (New York, 1950), pp.
284-87; Herts, Di yidishe sotsyalistishe
bavegung in amerike (The Jewish socialist movement in America) (New York,
1954), see index; Who’s Who in World
Jewry (New York, 1955), p. 239.
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