MOYSHE
DUNKELROYT (b. 1896)
He was born in Lodz, Poland, into a
Hassidic family. His father was a
well-known scholar and ritual slaughterer in the Scheibler district. He received a Jewish education in religious
primary school and in yeshiva. He later
became a stocking worker and was active in the “library for the spread of
education,” in the textile union, and in the Bund. In 1916, during the great famine under the
German occupation, he was taken to Hungary to perform compulsory labor, and there
he worked in an ammunition factory in Csepel.
He founded the Jewish cultural association “Morhenroyt” (Dawn) there and
was active as a speaker. In 1918 during
the Bolshevik Revolution, he worked among Jewish laborers and, until the
collapse of Béla Kun’s regime, he edited the weekly Tsum kamf (To the struggle) in Budapest (1918-early 1919).
Sources:
Y. Nakhbin, “Di yidishe prese in ungarn” (The Yiddish press in Hungary), a file
in the Kurski Archive (New York); Kh. L. Fuks, in Fun noentn over 3 (New York, 1957).
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