AVROM FRUMKIN (1889-February 1961)
He was a
Soviet writer and editor who lived in Moscow.
He worked as the assistant to the director of the Moscow-based Yiddish
press “Der emes” (The truth). He
contributed work to the Moscow anthologies: Heymland
(Homeland) and Tsum zig (To
victory). Together with N. Oyslender, he
compiled and edited three volumes of Sholem-Aleichem’s selected works (Moscow:
Emes, 1948). He wrote explanations and
notes to: Mendele’s
Masoes benyomen
hashlishi (The travels of Benjamin III) and Fishḳe der krumer (Fishke the lame) (Moscow, 1959), 422 pp.; and a
volume of Y. L. Perets’s stories In keler-shtub
(In a basement apartment) (Moscow, 1959).
He died in Moscow.
Sources: Y. Nusinov, in Eynikeyt (Moscow) (August 5, 1942); T. Gen, in Eynikeyt (October 2, 1945); obituary notice, in Folks-shtime (Warsaw) (March 2, 1961); Chone
Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim
babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union,
1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index; Biblyografye
fun yidishe bikher vegn khurbn un gvure (Bibliography of Yiddish books
concerning the Holocaust and heroism) (New York, 1962), see index.
Benyomen Elis
[Additional information from: and Chaim Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in
ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet
Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish
Culture, Inc., 2011), p. 298.]
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