KHAYIM-LEYB VAYNBERG (CHAIM LEIB WEINBERG)

KHAYIM-LEYB VAYNBERG (CHAIM LEIB WEINBERG) (1861-January 26, 1939)

            He was born in Tshekhanovtse, near Grodno, then in Russia.  He studied in religious primary school, for a short time also in a yeshiva in Bialystok.  In 1879 he moved to England, later returning to Russia, and thereafter visiting the United States.  In 1884 he came for a second time to America where he became a cigar maker, joined the anarchist movement, became a propagandist and an agitator for the more radical group among Jewish immigrants, then visited England a second time and appeared on stage before Jewish labor audiences in London, Liverpool, and other cities.  His book (edited by Dr. H. Frenk), Fertsik yor in kamf far sotsyaler bafrayung (Forty years in battle for social liberation), appeared posthumously (Los Angeles-Philadelphia, 1952), 172 pp.  His memoirs were an important contribution to the history of the labor movement.  He lived his last years on a farm outside Philadelphia and died there.

Sources: E. Frumkin, In friling fun yidishn sotsyalizm (In the spring of Jewish socialism) (New York, 1940), see index; Y. M. Melamut, in Fraye arbeter shtime (New York) (January 9, 1948); L. Kobrin, in Fraye arbeter shtime (January 21 and January 28, 1949).