FROYM KLEYMAN

FROYM KLEYMAN (1898-1966)

            He was born in Tsheladz (Czeladź), Poland.  He worked in tailoring in Sosnovits (Sosnowiec), Lodz, and Katovits (Katowice).  He was active in “Tseire-Tsiyon” (Young Zionists)-Labor Zionism.  He was their councilman in the Bendin (Będzin) Jewish community council and city hall.  He spent WWII in Soviet Russia.  He left for Israel in 1948.  He published poetry and articles in: Bafrayung (Liberation) in Warsaw (1919), Nayer folksblat (New people’s newspaper), Gendanken (Thoughts), Vegn (Ways), and Shveln (Thresholds)—in Lodz; Velt-shpigl (World mirror), Der strom (the current), and Inzer hofinung (Our hope) in Warsaw; Bendiner vokhnblat (Będzin weekly newspaper), Zaglembyer shlezishe tsaytung (Zagłębie Silesia newspaper), and Yung zaglembye (Young Zagłębie) (1936-1939, co-editor), among others.  Several of his poems were published in Sefer susnovits (Volume for Sosnowiec) (Tel Aviv, 1973).  In book form: Gerangl, lider un poemen (Struggle, poetry) (Sosnowiec, 1933), 60 pp.  He died in Kfar-Saba.

Sources: 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. 94-95; Sefer susnovits (Volume for Sosnowiec) (Tel Aviv, 1973), p. 545; Pinkes bendin (Records of Będzin) (Tel Aviv, 1959), see index; Pinkes zaglembye (Records of Zagłębie) (Tel Aviv, 1972), pp. 267-68.

Ruvn Goldberg