Frumkin Israel Dov ( 1850 , Dubrovno - 1914 , Jerusalem ) is a Jewish journalist, translator and public figure.
| Frumkin Israel Dov | |
|---|---|
| Heb. ישראל דוב פרומקין | |
 | |
| Date of Birth | 1850 |
| Place of Birth | Dubrovno |
| Date of death | 1914 |
| A place of death | Jerusalem |
| A country | |
| Occupation | , , , |
| Children | |
Biography
Born in the famous Hasidic family of rabbi Alexander-Sender Frumkin. At the age of nine, he came with his family to Jerusalem , his father himself gave him a religious education, and also taught him foreign languages (French, German and English). At the age of 15, he married the daughter of the famous publisher Israel Bak - Mindel Bak.
In 1870, he began working for the Hawazcellet newspaper, renewed shortly before by his father-in-law I. Buck (1797–1874), and soon became one of the newspaper’s editors (along with Mordecai Cohen).
In the period from 1873 to 1875, together with A. M. Lunts and others, he founded the maskilim club “Tif'eret Jerushalaim” and the first library in the city named after M. Montefiore.
Actively engaged in charity, he urged to achieve a high level of education, inclusion in the school curriculum of the secular sciences, music. To counter the agitation of Christian missionaries, on his initiative, the society Ezrat Nidahim (1883) was created.
Frumkin was one of the founders of the Jerusalem area of immigrants from Yemen, Ezrat Niddahim in Kfar Shilloah (now in East Jerusalem ) and Moshav hazkenim ha-meuhad in Jerusalem . In 1954 Frumkin's collected works were edited by G. Kressel.
The elder brother - Michl Levy Rodkinson - writer, publisher. Son - Gad Frumkin - Israeli judge.
Links
- Frumkin, family - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia