KHANEKH (HENEKH) FLAKSER (1888-1960)
He was
born in Vlotslavek (Włocławek), Poland, into a Hassidic and scholarly family. In his youth he gained fame as a prodigy and
a master of the Talmud. At the same time,
he demonstrated an extraordinary interest in the Jewish Enlightenment and “Ḥibat Tsiyon” (Love of
Zion). Stealthily, he read “enlightened”
books and newspapers, which were considered heretical at the time. He also published at the time correspondence
pieces in Warsaw’s Hatsfira (The
siren) and Haynt (Today). In 1926 he founded Vlotslavek vokhenblat (Włocławek weekly newspaper), organ of the retailers’ association, and
he edited it with Dovid Geyer and M. Miedzhinski. When the newspaper ceased publication, he contributed
to all the Jewish newspapers published in Włocławek until 1937 when he made
aliya to the land of Israel. He died in
Jerusalem. His son Yekhiel-Fishl Flakser
was known as a religious writer in Israel and a member of the secretariat of
the Knesset.
Sources: Vlotslavker
shtime (Włocławek) (June 1937); Dr. Y. Biderman, “Yidishe prese in vlotslavek” (The Jewish press in Włocławek), in Biderman, ed., Seyfer vlotslavek (Volume for Włocławek) (New York, 1967), pp. 314-15.
Dr. Y. M. Biderman
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