YANKEV HURVITS

YANKEV HURVITS

            He was born in Hermannshtadt (Hung. Nagyszeben; Rom. Sibiu), Hungary [now, Romania].  He was the son of the local rabbi and scholar, R. Tsvi-Hirsh Hurvits, who in 1893 published Yudishe vokhnshrift (Jewish weekly writing). At the beginning of the twentieth century, Hurvits moved to Jerusalem.  For a time he studied in a synagogue study hall, later turning his attention to business.  Over the years 1911-1912, he contributed to the weekly newspaper Unzer bruder (Our brother) in Jerusalem, in which he placed treatises on the Jewish settlement in Israel and various other general issues.

Sources: M. Unger, in Zamlbukh lekoved dem tsveyhundert un fuftsikstn yoyvl fun der yidisher prese, 1686-1936 (Anthology in honor of the 250^th jubilee of the Yiddish press, 1686-1936), ed. Dr. Y. Shatski (New York, 1937); Y. Y. Grinvald, Toyznt yor yidish lebn in ungarn (One thousand years of Jewish life in Hungary) (Columbus, Ohio, 1945), p. 279.