YANKEV
GRAF (1840-1895)
He was a follower of the Jewish
Enlightenment movement from Warsaw, a journalist, and a playwright, son-in-law
of the wealthy man Tsvi Hirsh Finklman.
He contributed to the Warsaw Yiddish press in the second half of the
nineteenth century. He wrote for Izraelita (Israelite) and for Varshoyer yudishe tsaytung (Warsaw
Jewish newspaper). He is considered the
first Warsaw social reporter. He wrote
about contemporary concerns involving the productivity of Polish Jewry and
treatises on Hassidism; he made known Jewish undertakings which were conducive to
employing Jewish laborers, and he fought for the Enlightenment in community institutions. Among other things, he called for a library
in the Warsaw Jewish hospital. He died
in Warsaw.
Source:
Y. Shatski, Geshikhte fun yidn in varshe
(History of Jews in Warsaw), vol. 3 (New York: YIVO, 1953), see index.
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