MENAKHEM-NOKHUM FRIDMAN (b. November 25, 1879)
He was born in Ștefănești, Romania, into a rabbinical-Hassidic
family, the great grandson of the rebbe, R. Yisroel Ruzhiner. He was raised in Bohush by his
grandfather. He married the daughter of
R. Yisroel Chortkover. He settled in Chortkiv
with his father-in-law and studied there for ten years. In 1907 he left Chortkiv and became rebbe in Ițcani,
Bukovina. During WWI he fled to Vienna
and remained there until 1921.
Afterward, he returned and settled in Ștefănești. He published the religious texts: Divre menaḥem (The words of Menaḥem)
(Cracow, 1913); Man (Mannah), a
commentary in three parts on tractate Avot (Fathers) (Vienna, 1920 and 1921;
Czernowitz, 1925), in which he strove to make peace between faith and Jewish
Enlightenment; Haḥalom vepatranu (The
dream and our interpreter) (Czernowitz, 1925), a text with considerable
information about dreams, from both Jewish philosophy and from general
knowledge—from Socrates to Freud—and from his own experiences in the
field. He also wrote articles for the
newspaper Biblyotek idishe visenshaft
(Library of Jewish scholarship) in Jassy (Iași) and for other Hebrew
and Yiddish newspapers under the pen name Kilay. Further information remains unknown.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.
Yankev Kahan
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