YANKEV FROMER (b. 1865)
He was
born in Lodz Balut, Poland, into a laboring family. He studied in religious elementary school and
yeshiva. In 1892 he left for Berlin
where he completed a doctoral degree in Oriental studies and philology. He was initiator and for a time the censor of
and contributor to the Yiddish press in Lodz and Warsaw: Folksblat (People’s newspaper) in Lodz (1915-1918); Varshever tageblat (Warsaw daily
newspaper) (1916-1918) in which, among other items, he published “Moker fun yidish”
(Origins of Yiddish). He was the author
of a Yiddish appeal, “Tsu di yidn in poyln” (To the Jews of Poland), which was
thrown from airplanes in the first weeks of the war in 1914. He authored a series of scholarly works in
German: Der babylonische Talmud (The
Babylonian Talmud), 2 vols; and Salomon
Maimons Lebensgeschichte (Solomon Maimon’s biography) (Munich, 1911), 518
pp.; among others. For many years he
served as a cultural leader for the Berlin Jewish community and editor of its
publications. He was killed in the years
of the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Sources: Folksblat
(Lodz) (Jul4, 1918); Jüdisches
Lexikon (Jewish biographical dictionary) (Berlin, 1928); information
from Dr. M. Weinreich in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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