MORTKHE FINKELMAN (b. 1876)
He was
born in Telenești, Bessarabia.
He lived in Odessa, Kishinev, and Belz.
He owned a publishing company. He
was active in the Ḥoveve-tsiyon
(Lovers of Zion) movement and “Bene Moshe” (Sons of Moses). From 1903 to 1914, he published stories and
travel narratives in: Fraynd (Friend)
in St. Petersburg; Der yud (The Jew)
in Cracow; and Haynt (Today) in
Warsaw. He also contributed to Spektor’s
Unzer lebn (Our life) and to the
Odessa newspapers: Gut morgn (Good
morning) and Sholem aleykhem (Good
day!). He lived in the land of Israel
during the years of WWI.
Sources: Y. Fikhman, Regnboygn,
zikhroynes, eseyen un lider (Rainbow, memoirs, essays, and poems) (Buenos
Aires) (1953), p. 18; Y. Tsuzmer, Beikve
hador (In the footprints of a generation) (New York, 1957), see index.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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