Y.
SH. NAUMOV (July 1881-March 9, 1946)
He was born in Kapulye (Kopyl, Kapyl), Minsk district,
Byelorussia. He received both Jewish and
secular educations. Around 1905 he moved
to New York. In 1912 he settled in Los
Angeles, helped to organize the first Labor Zionist group there, and cofounded the
secular Jewish schools, the “Radical Club,” and other Jewish institutions. He contributed to: Der idisher kemfer (The Jewish fighter) and Di tsayt (The times) in Los Angeles; Der forshteher (The representative) in St. Louis; and Progres (Progress), Patsifishe folks-tsaytung (Pacific people’s newspaper), Kheshn (Accounting), and Kalifornyer idishe shtime (Jewish voice
of California) in Los Angeles, in which over the course of twenty-five years he
published articles on writers and books, on education, Jewish tradition, and on
general Jewish issues. After his death
there was published a selection Gezamlte
shriftn (Collection writings) (Los Angeles: Naumov Book Committee, 1948),
318 pp. Among his pen names: Ben Nokhum,
Ish Nemi, Moyshe, and Itshe Kapulye. He
was a Labor Zionist his entire life, and he was active for laborers in the land
of Israel. He died in Los Angeles.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2; B.
Kahan, L. Glants, and F. Riskin, in Y. Sh. Naumov, Gezamlte shriftn (Collected writings) (Los Angeles, 1948).
Benyomen Elis
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