FROYM RASKIN (May 13, 1947-January 1, 1928)
He was a
bookseller in Warsaw, born in Shklov (Szkłów). From
1890 he published popular Yiddish detachable calendars, and from 1905 they
included jokes, stories, historical dates, and the like, the majority of them
compiled by Shiye Mazekh. He also
brought out several practical handbooks: Y. Elinovitsh, Mnemonishes praktishes lehrbukh der frantsezishen shprakhe, fir
zelbstlernende un lehrer (Mnemonic practical textbook of the French
language, for self-study and teachers) (Warsaw, 1899), 116 pp.; Yude Haleyvi
Levik, Der praktishe bukhhalter, a naye
un kurtse sistem (The practical bookkeeper, a new and brief system)
(Warsaw, 1904); and a series of twelve Kleyne
lehr-bikher far kleyn fabrikatsye (Short textbooks for small-scale
manufacture). He died in Warsaw.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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