FROYM-FISHL ROTENSHTRAYKH (1882-July 7, 1938)
He was
born in Kolomaye, Galicia. He studied in
religious elementary school until age eleven, later graduating from a Polish
high school, and going on to pursue German studies, philosophy, and classical
philology in Vienna. He received his
doctoral degree in 1909 and from that point worked as a teacher in a state high
school in Sambor (Sambir). From 1922 he
was in the Polish senate and from 1929 in the Polish Sejm. He was an active and leading Zionist. From 1935 he was living in the land of Israel. While still in high school, he published a
secret Zionist weekly newspaper entitled Unzere
makhshoves (Our thoughts). His
journalistic work began in Yiddish in Lemberg’s Togblat (Daily newspaper).
He was a regular contributor to Haynt
(Today). From time to time, he also
published articles in Moment (Moment)
and Lemberg’s Morgen (Morning), among
other serials. He wrote a great deal about
financial and economic matters, also for the Polish Jewish press. He died in Jerusalem.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopediya leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav
(Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 3 (Tel Aviv, 1950); Pinkes kolomaye (Records of Kolomaye) (New York, 1957), pp. 281-82;
Yitskhok Grinboym, Fun mayn dor (Of
my generation) (Tel Aviv: Makor, 1959), pp. 353-60; Itonut yehudit shehayta (Jewish press that was) (Tel Aviv, 1973),
see index.
Berl Cohen
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