SHMUEL KREMER

SHMUEL KREMER (b. May 1, 1888)

            He was a Yiddish and English journalist, born in Odessa.  He came to the United States in his youth.  He studied in religious elementary school, public school, middle school, and in the Journalism School at New York University.  He was active in the Jewish labor movement.  From 1909 with breaks, he worked as a reporter, article writer, and news editor of Forverts (Forward).  He also published in: Fortshrit (Progress), Naye tsayt (New times), Veker (Alarm), and Minikes yontef bleter (Minike’s holiday sheets).  He edited the English-Yiddish Der nekver arbayter (The neckwear worker), organ of the necktie makers.  He authored the pamphlet: Der amerikaner sitizen (The American citizen) (New York: Naturalization Aid League, 1921), 23 pp.  Among his pen names: Mortkhe Liberman, Ben Estar, Joshua Lendon, and A. Isaacson.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Y. Sh. Herts, Di yidishe sotsyalistishe bavegung in amerike, 70 yor sotsyalistishe tetikeyt, 30 yor yidishe sotsyalistishe farband (The Jewish socialist movement in America, seventy years of socialist activity, thirty years of the Jewish Socialist Union) (New York, 1954), p. 150; Arbeter-ring boyer un tuer (Builders and leaders of the Workmen’s Circle), ed. Y. Yeshurin and Y. Sh. Herts (New York, 1962).

Yekhezkl Lifshits