Abraham Frumkin

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Abraham Frumkin (1872 - 1946), the son of Israel Dov Frumkin, was a contributor to the daily "Yiddische Welt," of New York, and a prominent Jewish anarchist.

Born 1872 in Jerusalem. One year in Jaffa as a teacher of Arabic.

1891 he went to Constantinople to study law but he didn't manage it because of lack of money.

1893 he went to New York and came in contact with Anarchist ideas for the first time.

1894 he retuned to Constantinople with lots of Anarchist books and propaganda material. In the house of Moses Schapiro from South Russia and his wife Nastia, which was at that time a place for young ative people, he found open ears and minds. Schapiro, who had to flee from Russia because of his revolutionary activities, quickly was inflamed by the new ideas and went together with Frumkin to Paris and London. From there he took all books he could get about anarchism (Kropotkin, Reclus, Grave, Malato etc.) back home. From London the Yiddish Anarchist paper "Arbeiterfraind" was sent to Constantinople where the Jewish community around Shapiro welcomed it happily. From now on Frumkin wrote for that paper.

1896 Abraham Frumkin, a young man, came from Constantinople (Istanbul) to London. He became a friend of Rudolf Rocker.

Then in 1896 they decided to go to London to open a print shop for Yiddish Anarchist booklets. Many years later he wrote a book about this time "FROM THE SPRING PERIOD OF JEWISH SOCIALISM". Shapiro had to return to Constantinople in 1897. He left his print shop to Frumkin, who decided to publish an own little paper DER PROPAGANDIST (11 issues). It ended at 1897. After a while in Liverpool and Leeds 1898 Frumkin went to Paris to stay there a year. Then he went again to America 1899. Shapiro was later engaged in the Russian Revolution and was a co-founder 1922/23 of the IWA in Berlin.

He went to the US where he died in 1946.