Abraham Frumkin

Abraham Frumkin
אברהם פרומקין
Illustration of Frumkin by Jacob Epstein
Born1872 (1872)
Died29 April 1940(1940-04-29) (aged 67–68)
New York, United States
Occupations
  • Journalist
  • Translator
MovementAnarchism, Yiddishism
FatherIsrael Dov Frumkin
RelativesGad Frumkin (brother)

Abraham Frumkin (Hebrew: אברהם פרומקין; 1872 – 29 April 1940) was a Jewish journalist, translator and anarchist writer. Raised by a proto-Zionist family in the multicultural and multilingual environment of Jerusalem (then part of Ottoman Palestine), Frumkin became an advocate of transnational Yiddish culture and gravitated towards the political philosophy of anarchism. After spending time in Istanbul, he moved to London, where he edited the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Arbeter Fraint. After the newspaper shuttered, he moved to New York and spent the 1900s translating numerous avant-garde works into Yiddish, while continuing to write for Jewish anarchist and socialist publications.