Frumkin, Avrom
1889–February 1961
He was a Soviet prose writer, editor, and literary researcher who lived in Moscow. He worked as the assistant to the director of the Moscow-based Yiddish press Der Emes (The Truth).
He contributed work to the Moscow anthologies: Heymland (Homeland) and Tsum Zig (To Victory). Together with Nokhum Oyslender, he compiled, edited, and annotated three volumes of Sholem-Aleichem’s selected works (Moscow: Emes, 1948). He wrote explanations and notes to: Mendele’s Masoes Benyomen hashlishi (The Travels of Benjamin III) and Fishḳe der Krumer (Fishke the Lame) (Moscow: State Publisher for Artistic Literature, 1959), 422 pp.; and a volume of Y. L. Perets’s stories In keler-shtub (In a basement apartment) (Moscow: State Publisher for Artistic Literature, 1959).
He also wrote occasional stories himself. He died in Moscow.
Sources: Y. Nusinov, in Eynikeyt (Moscow) (August 5, 1942); T. Gen, in Eynikeyt (October 2, 1945); obituary notice, in Folks-Shtime (Warsaw) (March 2, 1961); Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish Publications in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index; Biblyografye fun Yidishe Bikher vegn Khurbn un Gvure (Bibliography of Yiddish Books Concerning the Holocaust and Heroism) (New York, 1962), see index.
Among the books that were edited by AVROM FRUMKIN is the translation into Yiddish of Ilya Traynin's Prolog : ershter teyl (orig.: Пролог = Prologue).- Moskve : Farlag Emes, 1935.- 279, [1] pp.
פראלאג : ערשטער טײל
אי. טרײנינ; רעד. - א. פרומקינ
The author : Трайнин, Илья Павлович 1886-1949