NAFTOLI ZIGEL

NAFTOLI ZIGEL (October 17, 1887-1962?)

            He was born in Moshchiska (Mostys’ka), eastern Galicia.  He worked for a time as a teacher in the smaller cities in Galicia, later settling in Lemberg where his bookshop “Snunit” (Swallow) was a meeting place for Jewish writers in the city.  He published articles in Yiddish-language newspapers: Lemberger togblat (Lemberg daily newspaper), Der morgn (The morning), and Morgnpost (Morning mail) in Lemberg.  Later he was living in Israel, where for twenty-three years he worked as a teacher in Kiryat-Motzkin.  He was last living in Tel Aviv.

Sources: Gershon Bader, Medina veḥakhameha (The state and its sages) (New York, 1934), p. 96; Dov Sadan, ed., Kearat tsimukim o elef bediha ubediha, asufat humor be-yisrael (A bowl of raisins or one thousand and one jokes, an anthology of humor in Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1952), see index; Haarets (Tel Aviv) (August 23, 1957); Dr. M. Zar-Kavod, in Hapoel hatsair (Tel Aviv) (September 8, 1959).