Monday 1 October 2018

SHLOYME-BER (SOL) FARBSHTEYN


SHLOYME-BER (SOL) FARBSHTEYN
            Hailing from Poland, he came to the United States in the late nineteenth century.  He was a community leader and writer in Philadelphia.  He was a cofounder of the local Yiddish press.  He contributed articles to: Filadelfyer prese (Philadelphia press) and Di idishe velt (The Jewish world), among others.  He was a regular contributor to the first Yiddish daily newspaper Filadelfyer morgentsaytung (Philadelphia morning newspaper) (January-July 1907).  Further biographical details remain unknown.

Source: D. B. Tirkel, in Pinkes (New York) 1 (1927-1928), p. 261.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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