TUVYE
YAKUBOVITSH (ca. 1903-1942)
He was born in Shedlets (Siedlce),
Poland. He studied in religious primary
school, yeshiva, and with private tutors.
He was active in the youth organization of “Tseire agudat yisrael” (Agudat Yisrael youth) in
Shedlets. From 1921 he was writing
articles for the Aguda publications: Beys
yankev (Beys Yankev) in Lodz; Der
tsoir (The youth) in Konstantin (new Lodz); and Unzer veg (Our way) in Shedlets, for which he served as editor,
1924-1930. He carried on a polemic with
the Shedletser vokhnblat (Shedlets
weekly newspaper) which effected a ban on this weekly on the part of the
Shedlets rabbinate. He died in the
Shedlets ghetto under the Nazis.
Sources:
Y. Kaspi, in Yivo-bleter (New York)
36 (1952), p. 362; information from Rabbi Meyer Shvartsman in Winnipeg.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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