SIMKHE-MOYSHE
PRAGER (1900-March 13, 1941)
He was born in Zdunske-Volye (Zduńska
Wola), near Lodz, Poland. Until
WWII he was a leader in Agudat Yisrael and a teacher in the local Beys Yankev
school. He published articles and
translations concerning education and general Jewish matters in: Der yudisher arbeter (The Jewish worker)
and Bey yankev zhurnal (Beys Yankev
journal) in Lodz; Yugend-kreftn
(Talents of youth) in Warsaw; Dos yudishe
vokhnblat (The Jewish weekly newspaper) in Bendin (Będzin);
and elsewhere. He translated from the
German and reworked for the classroom L. Stern’s Amude hayahadut (The pillars of Judaism), a textbook of religion
for home and school (published in 32-page booklets) (Będzin,
1926). He was murdered in Zduńska
Wola by the Nazis in the bloody Purim of 1941.
Sources:
Information from Y. Nusboym in Israel; Biblyografishe
yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), see
index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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