TSVI FRENKEL (b. 1903)
He was
born in a town near Lemberg, Galicia.
During the years of WWI, he moved to Vienna, where he received a Jewish
and a general education. He graduated from
the University of Vienna, and until 1928 he was a teacher in Jewish community
schools. At the same time, he was active
in the Zionist and pioneer movement.
From 1930 until WWII, he was a teacher of English and German in the
Hebrew high school in Shavel (Šiauliai). He was a member of the editorial board of the
weekly newspaper Dos vort (The word)
in Kovno, in which, aside from articles on cultural matters, he published
essays on modern European literature. He
authored a lengthy work about Franz Kafka, a fragment of which appeared in the
anthology Ringen (Links) (Kovno,
1940). He was murdered by the Nazis in
the years of the Holocaust in Europe.
Source: Information from N. Y. Gotlib in Montreal and
Berl Cohen in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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