YANKEV DERMER

YANKEV DERMER (b. ca. 1890)

            He was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina.  He received a general education.  He held a doctorate in humanities and history from the universities of Bucharest and Paris.  He was an active leader in Dr. Y. Manus’s workers’ party.  He was an extraordinary orator and polemicist.  Over the years 1930-1940, he was professor of history and geography in the Romanian senior high school in Sighet, Hungary, where he was also active in Jewish community and cultural life.  He published articles on the history of Jews in Marmației, as well as about other Jewish and general matters in Marmorasher bleter (Leaves from Marmației) (1931-1932), of which he served as co-editor with A. M. Hirsh and Dr. N. Shternberg.  No more definite information about Dermer has come to light since the onset of WWII.

Sources: Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (July 31, 1931); oral information from A. Bash in Montreal.