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אַברבנאל

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Ostrów Lubelski, Poland
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Tel Aviv
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    Abarbanel, Shmuel

    July 15, 1910–March 11, 1972

    61 years

    He was born in Ostrów Lubelski, Poland. He studied in yeshivas. From 1929 he was living in Warsaw.

    During WWII he was in the Soviet Union, and from 1949 in Israel. Initially, he was active in the Freeland League, later with the left Labor Zionists, and finally with the anarchists.

    He was co-editor of the anarchist Problemen (Problems), edited from 1964, and of the memorial volume for Skarżysko-Kamienna (Tel Aviv, 1973). He wrote for Fraye Shriftn (Free Writings) in Vilna, as well as Forverts (Forward) and Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor) in New York).

    He died in Tel Aviv.

    Source: Simkhe Hamburg, in Problemen (Tel Aviv) (1972), p. 68; (1981), p. 118.

    אַברבנאל, שמואל

    15טן יולי 1910 – 11טן מאַרץ 1972

    61 יאָר

    געבױרן אין אָסטראָװ־לובעלסק, פּױלן.  געלערנט אין ישיבות. פֿון 1929 אין װאַרשע.

    בעתן צװײטן װעלטקריג אין סאװעט־רוסלאַנד, פֿון 1949 אין ישׂראל. תּחילת טעטיק אין „פֿרײַלאַנד־ליגע“, דערנאָך בײַ לינקע פּוע״צ און צום סוף בײַ די אַנאַרכיסטן.

    מיטרעד׳ פֿון די אַנאַרכיסטישע פּראָבלעמען (פֿון 1964— רעד׳) און פֿון יזכּור־בוך סקאַרז׳יסקו קמיאננה (תּ־א, 1973). געשריבן אין פֿרײַע שריפֿטן (װילנע), פֿאָרװערטס, פֿא״ש— נ״י.

    געשטאָרבן אין תּ״א.

     

    מקור: שׂמחה האַמבורג, פּראָבלעמען, 1972: 68; 117:1981.

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