AVROM FRIDMAN

AVROM FRIDMAN (1877-March 26, 1937)

            He was born in Lublin, Poland.  In 1907 he moved to Argentina.  He was active in Jewish community life there.  He was cofounder of a Jewish school.  From 1915 until his death, he was one of the principal leaders of the “Polish-Jewish Association” in Argentina.  He was an internal contributor to the first Yiddish daily newspaper, Der tog (The day), in Buenos Aires (1912-1913); later, until 1923, he wrote for Idisher tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) and was co-editor of Dos naye vort (The new word) (1923-1936).  He died in Buenos Aires.

Sources: Naye folkstsaytung (Warsaw) (April 5, 1937); obituary notice in the Buenos Aires press.

Khaym Leyb Fuks