AVROM DIKENSHTEYN (ABRAHAM DICKENSTEIN)

AVROM DIKENSHTEYN (ABRAHAM DICKENSTEIN) (June 15, 1902-February 1977)

            He was born in Vishnev (Vishnevo), Poland.  He studied in religious primary schools and in yeshivas, in a secular middle school and in a university.  He was an activist with Tseire-Tsiyon (Young Zionists) and the Labor Zionist Party.  From 1922 he was living in Israel where he worked in physical labor.  He was active in the Haganah and assumed a number of important community and party positions.  In 1941 he visited the United States on behalf of Am-Pol (America-Poland).  He was a delegate to the Zionist Congress in 1939.  He published articles in Tog (Day), Forverts (Forward), and Idisher kemfer (Jewish fighter), and in Hebrew in Kuntres (Pamphlet), Davar (Word), and Hadoar (The mail).  He was living in Israel.

Source: D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 5 (Tel Aviv, 1952), p. 2291.