Tuesday, 26 February 2019

SAM KAPLAN


SAM KAPLAN
            He was the first editor of Der idisher fihrer (The Jewish leader) which began to appear in print in 1925 in Lynn, Massachusetts, later moving over to Boston.  There he published it for a short period of time as a daily newspaper, later a biweekly and weekly, until it shut down with issue 412 on October 5, 1926

Sources: S. Brokhes, Di geshikhte fun der yidisher prese in masatshuzets (The history of the Yiddish press in Massachusetts) (New York, 1939), p. 29.
Berl Cohen


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