KHAYIM FINKELSHTEYN (August 11, 1899-March 1, 2001)
He was
born in Warsaw, Poland. He received both
a Jewish and a general education. He
studied at the journalists’ senior high school (Wszechnica). He was a Zionist and a community leader. He later came to the United States. In New York he was secretary of the World
Federation of General Zionists and an official in the central leadership of
Jewish World Congress. His journalistic
activities began in Dos yudishe folk
(The Jewish people) in Warsaw (1919).
From that point until 1939, he worked as an internal contributor to Haynt (Today)—he held positions from
reporter to co-editor. He also
contributed to: Hatsfira (The siren)
and Kiem (Existence), and to the
Polish Jewish press as well. For many
years he served as the Warsaw correspondent for: Di tsayt (The times) in Vilna, Dos
naye lebn (The new life) in Bialystok, Grodner
haynt (Grodno today), and Morgn-zhurnal
(Morning journal) in New York, among others.
In 1937 he published serially in Haynt
a long work entitled “Vegn der poyperizatsye fun di poylishe yidn” (On the
pauperization of Polish Jewry) and a long essay entitled “Haynt” in Fun noentn over (From the recent past)
(New York) 2 (1956). In book form: Erets-yisroel in arbet un kamf (The land
of Israel in work and struggle) (Warsaw, 1939), 163 pp.; Haynt, a tsaytung bay yidn, 1908-1939 (Haynt [Today], a newspaper for Jews,
1908-1939) (Tel Aviv, 1978), 471 pp. He
also published under the name Kh. Fink.
He died in New York
Sources: R. Feldshuh, Yidisher
gezelshaftlekher leksikon (Jewish communal handbook) (Warsaw, 1939), p. 837;
N. Y. Gotlib, in Keneder odler
(Montreal) (March 20, 1940); Y. Gar and F.
Fridman, Biblyografye fun yidishe
bikher vegn khurbn un gvure (Bibliography of Yiddish books concerning the
Holocaust and heroism) (New York, 1962), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 442.]
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