AVROM SHOLEM KAMENETSKI (October 3, 1874-1943)
He was a
Hebrew researcher, born in Slonim. He
received his doctoral degree in Berne, Switzerland. He published work on Tanakh, Judaism, and
Jewish history in Hebrew, German, French, and Yiddish. He wrote for: Lodzer tageblat (Lodz daily newspaper); and Ilustrirte vokh (Illustrated week), Bikher-velt (Book world), Moment
(Moment), and Haynt (Today)—in Warsaw;
as well as serials in other languages.
From vol. 7, he was editing the Russian-Jewish encyclopedia (St.
Petersburg, 1910). He died in the Lodz
ghetto.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2
(Merḥavya, 1967);
Zusman Segalovitsh, Tlomatske 13, fun
farbrente nekhtn (13 Tłomackie St., of zealous nights) (Buenos Aires: Central Association of
Polish Jews in Argentina, 1946), p. 84; Yediot
ganazim (Jerusalem) (Nisan [= April-May] 1973); Khayim Leyb Fuks, Lodzh shel mayle, dos yidishe gaystiḳe un
derhoybene lodzh, 100 yor yidishe un oykh hebreishe literatur un kultur in
lodzh un in di arumiḳe shtet un shtetlekh (Lodz on high, the Jewish
spiritual and elevated Lodz, 100 years of Yiddish and also Hebrew literature
and culture in Lodz and in the surrounding cities and towns) (Tel Aviv: Perets
Publ., 1972), pp. 257-58; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Ruvn Goldberg
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