YISROEL
GROHMAN (b. 1897)
He was born in Shedlets (Siedlce), Poland, into a well-to-do
family. He received both a Jewish and a
general education in religious primary school, synagogue study hall, and with
private tutors. He was an active
community representative and closely involved with the left Labor Zionists, a Yiddish-Hebrew
teacher, and a cultural leader and speaker.
He was one of the pioneers in the Yiddish press in Shedlets in a revived
Poland. He wrote current events
articles, principally on Jewish issues, for Shedletser
shtime (Voice of Shedlets) in 1922 and for Shedletser vokhnblat (Shedlets weekly newspaper) in 1922-1923 of
which he was also editor. Together with
Osher Liberman, Leyvi Gutgelt, and Shiye Goldberg, he edited Shedletser shtime. At the end of 1925 he emigrated to the United
States and worked as a Yiddish-Hebrew teacher in a number of cities in America
and Canada.
Source:
Yitsḥak Kaspi, in Sefer
yizkor lekehilat shedlets (Remembrance volume for the community of
Shedlets) (Tel Aviv and Buenos Aires, 1956).
This information is actually about Jacob (Yaakov) Grohman, one of the sons of Yisroel, not about Yisroel. I am the daughter of Jacob Grohman. He told me, many years ago, of a similar mistake in a book published in Israel about Jews in Shedletz. In the United States, he was for some years the organizer and principal of Arbiter Ring schools.
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