BERL RUDMAN (b. June 17, 1896)
He was a
journalist, born in Kultshin (Kul’chyny), Volhynia. He received a traditional education. In 1914 he emigrated to the United States,
where he graduated from Harvard University and Boston Teachers’ College. For many years he worked as a teacher of mathematics
in a Boston middle school and at Northeastern University. He debuted in print in Kundes (Prankster) in New York.
He also contributed work to: Tog
(Day), Idisher kemfer (Jewish
fighter), Fraye arbeter shtime (Free
voice of labor), Inzikh (Introspective),
and mainly in Tsukunft (Future)—all in
New York. He wrote primarily about American
and Jewish-American social and political issues. He also published features and contributed
mathematics problems in English-language trade journals.
Sources: Tsukunft
(New York) (August 1942); Shmuel Niger, in Tog-morgn-zhurnal
(New York) (November 29, 1953); Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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