YANKEV KLEYN

YANKEV KLEYN

            He was the chief bookkeeper at Avraham-Yosef Publishers, which had an immense print shop.  In 1872 he became the second editor of the biweekly journal Der izraelit (The Israelite) (in Yiddish 1969-1872, later in German).

Source: Y. Margoshes, in Zamlbukh lekoved dem tsveyhundert un fuftsikstn yoyvl fun der yidisher prese, 1686-1936 (Anthology in honor of the 250^th jubilee of the Yiddish press, 1686-1936), ed. Dr. Y. Shatski (New York, 1937), p. 13.

Berl Cohen