Tsomber, Lipman
1895-summer 1942
He was born in Kutne (Kutno), Poland. He was active in the Folk-Partey (People’s Party) and later in the Bund. He was a teacher and administrator of the first Jewish school named for Y. L. Perets in Kutno. He later moved with his family to Warsaw. He worked in a Tsisho (Central Jewish School Organization) school and at the same time was studying in university, from which he received his doctorate in history.
He was a contributor to: YIVO-Shriftn (YIVO Writings) in Vilna; and Folks-Tsaytung (People’s Newspaper), Bleter far Geshikhte (Pages for History), and Yunger Historiker (Young Historian) in Warsaw. He published, among other items: “A Bild fun Yidishn Kultur-Lebn in a Poylisher Shtot in Obheyb fun 19tn Yorhundert (Di Kutner Khevre-Kedishe in Onheyb fun 19tn Yorhundert)” (An Image of Jewish Cultural Life in a Polish City at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, the Kutno Burial Society at the Start of the Nineteenth Century), Yunger Historiker 1 (1926); “A Mikloymershter Pruv tsu Kolonizirn Yidn af der Erd in Ibergang fun 18tn-19tn Yorhundert” (An Apparent Effort to Colonize Jews on the Earth in the Transition Between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries), Yunger Historiker 2 (1929).
According to B. Mark, he was murdered in the first mass liquidation carried out by the Germans in the summer of 1942.
Sources: Lerer Yizker-Bukh (Remembrance Volume for Teachers) (New York, 1954), pp. 352-53; B. Mark, Umgekumene Shrayber fun di Getos un Lagern (Murdered Writers from the Ghettos and Camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 67; Doyres Bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 1 (New York, 1956), pp. 149-51.