Wednesday, 30 January 2019

YANKEV (JACOB) KOHN


YANKEV (JACOB) KOHN
            He was the editor of the weekly Idishe nayes (Jewish news) in New York (1871) in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and German.

Sources: Kalmen Marmor, in Frayhayt (New York) (April 11, 1931); Elye (Elias) Shulman, Geshikhte fun der yidisher literatur in amerike (History of Yiddish literature in America) (New York, 1943), p. 37; Moyshe Shtarkman, Geklibene shriftn (Selected writings) (Tel Aviv, 1979).
Berl Cohen


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