AVROM KLEYNMAN

AVROM KLEYNMAN (November 27, 1889-March 29, 1940)

            He was a journalist, born in Lublin.  He studied in religious elementary school.  He graduated from high school in Lublin and studied at Warsaw University.  He was a member, 1919-1920, of the Zionist central committee in Poland.  His activities as a journalist began in 1915 in Razsvet (Dawn), using the pen name A. Kotonish.  He was a member of the editorial board of the daily newspaper Dos yidishe folk (The Jewish people) in Warsaw and later of Haynt (Today), following the unification of the two newspaper in January 1920.  He wrote under the pseudonym A. Politiker and from time to time under his own name.  He died in Warsaw.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; R. Feldshuh, Yidisher gezelshaftlekher leksikon (Jewish communal handbook) (Warsaw, 1939); B. Kutsher, Geven amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955), p. 157; Itonut yehudit shehayta (Jewish press that was) (Tel Aviv, 1973), p. 63; Khayim Finkelshteyn, Haynt, a tsaytung bay yidn, 1908-1939 (Haynt [Today], a newspaper for Jews, 1908-1939) (Tel Aviv, 1978), pp. 192-93; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York); American Jewish Yearbook (1941).

Yekhezkl Lifshits