YEHUDE BUKHHALTER

YEHUDE BUKHHALTER (b. September 4, 1860)

            He was born in Mariampol, Lithuania.  In 1887 he moved to New York (he had been there several years earlier), where he became a teacher of Hebrew.  From 1912 he was the administrator of the Montefiore Hebrew Free School.  He wrote about topical issues, education, Jewishness, and the like.  He published in Yudishe gazeten (Jewish gazetter) in New York and principally in Yidishes tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper).  Around 1902 he brought out an anthology concerned with education, entitled Der veker (The alarm) in New York.

Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon fun yudisher literatur un prese (Handbook of Jewish literature and the press) (Warsaw, 1914).

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 72.