LIPMAN TSOMBER

LIPMAN TSOMBER (1895-ca. 1942)

            He was born in Kutne (Kutno), Poland.  He was active in the Folk-partey (People’s party) and later in the Bund.  He was a teacher and administrator of the first Jewish school named for Y. L. Perets in Kutno.  He later moved with his family to Warsaw.  He worked in a Tsisho (Central Jewish School Organization) school and at the same time was studying in university, from which he received his doctorate in history.  He was a contributor to: Yivo-shriftn (YIVO writings) in Vilna; and Folks-tsaytung (People’s newspaper), Bleter far geshikhte (Pages for history), and Yunger historiker (Young historian) in Warsaw.  He published, among other items: “A bild fun yidishn kultur-lebn in a poylisher shtot in obheyb fun 19tn yorhundert (di kutner khevre-kedishe in onheyb fun 19tn yorhundert)” (An image of Jewish cultural life in a Polish city at the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Kutno burial society at the start of the nineteenth century), Yunger historiker 1 (1926); “A mikloymershter pruv tsu kolonizirn yidn af der erd in ibergang fun 18tn-19tn yorhundert” (An apparent effort to colonize Jews on the earth in the transition between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries), Yunger historiker 2 (1929).  According to B. Mark, he was murdered in the first mass liquidation carried out by the Germans in the summer of 1942.

Sources: Lerer yizker-bukh (Remembrance volume for teachers) (New York, 1954), pp. 352-53; B. Mark, Umgekumene shrayber fun di getos un lagern (Murdered writers from the ghettos and camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 67; Doyres bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 1 (New York, 1956), pp. 149-51.

Yankev Kahan