Wednesday 30 January 2019

YANKEV (JACOB) KOHN


YANKEV (JACOB) KOHN
            He was the editor of the weekly Idishe nayes (Jewish news) in New York (1871) in English, Yiddish, Hebrew, and German.

Sources: Kalmen Marmor, in Frayhayt (New York) (April 11, 1931); Elye (Elias) Shulman, Geshikhte fun der yidisher literatur in amerike (History of Yiddish literature in America) (New York, 1943), p. 37; Moyshe Shtarkman, Geklibene shriftn (Selected writings) (Tel Aviv, 1979).
Berl Cohen


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