KHAYIM-ZALMEN KRON (1898?-summer 1941)
He was
born in Riteve (Rietavas), Lithuania. He
studied in religious elementary school and yeshivas. He was very active in “Tseire yisroel” (Young
Israel). He was a cofounder of the
Orthodox women’s high school “Yavne” in Telz.
For ten years he taught and administered the “Yavne” high school in
Kovno. For a short time in 1925, he was a
speaker on Jewish affairs before the Lithuanian Ministry of Internal
Affairs. In the 1930s he was a rabbi in
Pikeln (Pikeliai)
and Pokroy (Pakruojis), where he died with his entire community in
1941. From 1921 he contributed to the
Orthodox Der idisher leben (The
Jewish life) (Kovno in 1921, a weekly; 1922-23, a daily newspaper; from 1924 with
major interruptions, a weekly). He wrote
on community problems and education. He
published as well in Hebrew in Haneeman
(The trusted) in Telz-Kovno (1925-1939) and other Orthodox publications. His pen name: Ḥazak.
Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), cols. 490-91.
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