MEYER FRUMKIN (b. 1889)
He was
born in Telenesht (Telenesti), Bessarabia.
He studied in religious elementary school, a yeshiva in Odessa, and with
private tutors. In 1906 he moved to
Argentina. He worked on the land for a
while, and later he was a business employee.
He became active in the first Labor Zionist group in Buenos Aires. He was one of the first poets in pioneering
Yiddish-language periodicals. He published
lyrical and ethnic nationalist poetry, short stories, and translations of
midrashim in: Broyt un ere (Bread and
honor), Der avangard (The
avant-garde), and Di idishe hofenung
(The Jewish aspiration) in Buenos Aires (1908-1913); later contributing to Di idishe tsaytung (The Jewish newspaper)
and in Hebrew to Dorem (South), among
others, in Buenos Aires. In book form: Lider (Poetry) (Buenos Aires, 1920), 96
pp., with a preface by Moyshe Pintshevski.
In late 1933 he made aliya to the land of Israel.
Sources: Sh. Rozhanski, Dos yidishe gedrukte vort un
teater in argentine (The published Yiddish word and theater in Argentina),
vol. 1 (Buenos Aires, 1941), pp. 135, 176-77; Y. Botoshanski, Mame yidish (Mother Yiddish) (Buenos
Aires, 1949), p. 212.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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