MOYSHE-BENYOMEN KLEYNMAN

MOYSHE-BENYOMEN KLEYNMAN (1908-June 17, 1970)

            A writer on religion, he was born in Bendin (Będzin).  He came from a Hassidic family.  He received a sternly traditional education.  He was a cofounder of “Poale Agudat Yisrael” (Workers of Agudat Yisrael).  Saved from the Nazi camps, he came to Israel and settled there in 1948.  He served as co-editor of Der nayer arbayter veg (The new workers’ path), Unzer tribune (Our tribune), and other Aguda organs, and he helped to found Bashar (At the gate) in Yiddish in Paris (1946).  He wrote up his memoirs in Pinkes bendin (Records of Będzin) (Tel Aviv, 1959) and in Pinkes zaglembye (Records of Zagłębie) (Tel Aviv, 1972).  A number of his Yiddish articles may be found in a remembrance volume for him: Pirke ḥazon vemaas lerabi moshe binyamin kleynman z”l (Chapters in the vision and deeds of R. Moshe-Binyamin Kleynman, may his memory be for a blessing) (Tel Aviv, 1972).  He died in Tel Aviv.

Sources: D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 16 (Tel Aviv, 1967); Sefer susnovits (Volume for Sosnowiec), vol. 1 (Tel Aviv, 1973), pp. 581-82.

Ruvn Goldberg