Abraham Frumkin

Jewish anarchist (1873–1940) Abraham Frumkin (Hebrew: אברהם פרומקין; 1872 – 29 April 1940) was a Jewish journalist, translator and anarchist writer. Raised by a proto-Zionist family in the multicultural and multilingual environment of Jerusalem (then part of Ottoman Palestine), Frumkin became an advocate of transnational Yiddish culture and gravitated towards the political philosophy of anarchism. After spending time in Istanbul, he moved to London, where he edited the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Arbeter Fraint. After the newspaper shuttered, he moved to New York and spent the 1900s translating numerous avant-garde works into Yiddish, while continuing to write for Jewish anarchist and socialist publications. Biography Abraham Frumkin was born in Jerusalem, in 1872. Frumkin himself was raised by a Proto-Zionist family, which had settled in Palestine prior to the First Aliyah. He grew up in a multicultural and multilingual Jerusalem, where he learnt to fluently speak the Arabic language at an early age. He later recalled that "the times were different then", as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict had not yet developed. His father Israel Dov published his newspaper Hava