FROYM-ELYE RIBAK (December 28, 1875-1954)
He was born
in Tshekhanovtse (Ciechanowiec), Poland.
In 1898 he settled in Chicago. He
was the rabbi of the “Ḥevra
shas” (Talmud study group) in Chicago schools.
He published a number of articles in the Yiddish press. He was the author of: Yalkut elye (A collection of Elye) (Chicago, 1942), 77 pp.
(Yiddish) and 18 pp. (English); Imre oves,
etishe leres in pirke oves (Words of the Fathers, ethical teachings in Pirke avot) (Chicago, 1946), 381 pp.; Avuka (Torch), Hebrew and Yiddish
initials r”t in a popular Yiddish (Chicago, 1948), 84 pp. He died in Chicago.
Berl Cohen
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