YOYEL FUKS (1882-July 4, 1929)
He was
born in Dobzhin (Dobrzyn), Koyav (Kujawy) district, Poland, into a rabbinical
family. He received both a Jewish and a
general education. In his youth he
joined the Mizrachi movement. He was well-known
as a preacher and as a polemicist, mainly against Agudat Yisrael. He was rabbi in a number of Jewish
communities, the last one being in Blashki (Błaszki), near
Kalisz. He also worked there as a
teacher of Jewish religion in the state school.
He published essays, scholarly and journalistic works, as well as
articles in Hebrew in Shaare tora
(Gates of the Torah) in Warsaw, and in Yiddish in Hamizrakhi (The Mizrachi), Der
mizrakhi-veg (The Mizrachi way), Unzer
veg (Our way), and Unzer shtime
(Our voice), among others, in Warsaw. He
died in Lodz.
Sources: Information from Dr. Leyb Fuks in Amsterdam; Sh.
Brot, in Hatsofe (Jerusalem) (April
8, 1963); Brot, in Unzer veg (Paris)
(May 10, 1963).
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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