SHLOYME BROMBERG

SHLOYME BROMBERG (1862-1919)

Born in Lodz, he attended religious primary school and synagogue study hall.  He was among the members of the first Lodz “lovers of Zion” (Ḥoveve-tsiyon [early Zionists]).  He was a merchant and a small-level manufacturer.  During the years of WWI, he left Lodz and took refuge in Russia.  He was the author of a novel written in the style of Ayzik Meyer Dik: Di shreklekhe nekome fun a vayb (The horrifying revenge of a wife) (Lodz, 1899), 96 pp. (published under the pen name “Meshulem Hagiber”).  He also published the collection, Der gedank vegn tsiyen (The idea of Zion) (Lodz, 1900), 24 pp., which included articles concerning Zionism.

Sources: Zvi Cohen, in Lodzer folks-blat (July 16, 1916); Kh. L. Fuks, “Dos yidishe literarishe lodzh” (Jewish literary Lodz), Fun noentn over 2 (New York, 1956).