GAD FRUMKIN (August 2, 1887-March 1960)
The son
of Yisrael-Dov Frumkin and the brother of Avrom Frumkin, he was born in
Jerusalem. He was a lawyer working for
the Turkish government and later chief justice of the peace in Jerusalem. He was also chairman of the youth
organization “Bnei Yehuda” (Children of Judah).
From 1920 he was president of the society for Jewish law (Mishpat
Haivri). He served on the editorial
board of his father’s Haḥavatselet
(The daffodil), later becoming full-fledged editor. He wrote journalistic articles in Yiddish and
Hebrew under the pen name “Gefen.” He
died in Jerusalem.
Sources: Sefer
haishim (Biographical dictionary) (Tel Aviv, 1937), pp. 396-97; A. R.
Malachi, in Hadoar (New York) (June
6, 1947).
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