KHAYIM-MORTKHE FLIGELMAN (March 15, 1873-1930)
He was
born in the village of Bobrovniki, Kozienice district, Poland. He studied in the nearby town of Głowaczów with
itinerant schoolteachers and the synagogue study hall. He later turned his attention to speculative
works and the Jewish Enlightenment, and studied Polish and Russian. After marrying, he returned to Radom and
continued his studies while being supported by his in-laws. He became a timber merchant, and after WWI a
business office employee. From childhood
he wrote in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Polish.
He published a historical novel from the era of the Hasmoneans, entitled
Heldn, historisher roman fun der
khashmenoim-epokhe (Heroes, a historical novel from the Hasmonean epoch)
(Warsaw: Y. Tsuker, 1927), 413 pp. He
died in Radom.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Literarishe
bleter (Warsaw) (February 25, 1927); Seyfer
radom (Volume for Radom) (Tel Aviv: Irgun yotse radom beyisrael, 1961), p. 234.
Yankev Kahan
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