Wednesday, 2 January 2019

TSVI FRENKEL


TSVI FRENKEL (b. 1903)
            He was born in a town near Lemberg, Galicia.  During the years of WWI, he moved to Vienna, where he received a Jewish and a general education.  He graduated from the University of Vienna, and until 1928 he was a teacher in Jewish community schools.  At the same time, he was active in the Zionist and pioneer movement.  From 1930 until WWII, he was a teacher of English and German in the Hebrew high school in Shavel (Šiauliai).  He was a member of the editorial board of the weekly newspaper Dos vort (The word) in Kovno, in which, aside from articles on cultural matters, he published essays on modern European literature.  He authored a lengthy work about Franz Kafka, a fragment of which appeared in the anthology Ringen (Links) (Kovno, 1940).  He was murdered by the Nazis in the years of the Holocaust in Europe.

Source: Information from N. Y. Gotlib in Montreal and Berl Cohen in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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