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Abraham Frumkin

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A las Barricadas Anarchist bookfair Anarcho-punk Anarchy in the U.K. Architecture Bourse du travail Circle-A DIY ethic Escuela Moderna Films Freeganism Infoshop Independent Media Center The Internationale May Day Popular education Radical cheerleading Radical environmentalism Self-managed social center Symbolism Economics Cooperative Cost the limit of price Decentralized planned economy Free association General strike Gift economy Give-away shop Labor voucher Local exchange trading system Market socialism Mutual bank Mutual credit Social ownership Wage slavery Workers' self-management By region Lists Anarcho-punk bands Books Fictional characters Films Jewish anarchists Musicians Periodicals Related topics Anarcho-capitalism Anti-corporatism Anti-consumerism Anti-fascism Anti-globalization Anti-statism Anti-war movement Autarchism Autonomist marxism Communism Communization Council communism IWA Labour movement Left communism Left-libertarianism Libertarian socialism Marxism National-anarchism Operaismo Relationship between Friedrich Nietzsche and Max Stirner Situationist International Socialism Spontaneous order Anarchism portal Politics portal v t e Abraham Frumkin ( Hebrew : אברהם פרומקין ; 1873 – 29 April 1940) was a Jewish author, journalist, and anarchist . Born in Jerusalem , Frumkin was the son of Israel Dov Frumkin , a pioneer of Hebrew journalism, and the brother of Gad Frumkin , who would serve as a judge on the Supreme Court of Palestine during the British Mandate era. He spent a year in Jaffa as an Arabic teacher before moving to Istanbul in 1891 to study law, but did not graduate due to lack of funds. In 1893, he went to New York City and came in contact with anarchist ideas for the first time. By 1894, he had returned to Constantinople with many anarchist books and propaganda material. The house of Moses Schapiro from South Russia and his wife Nastia was a space for young activists, such as himself. Schapiro, who fled from Russia because of his revolutionary activities, was inflamed by Frumkin's new ideas and went together to Paris and London. In those places, Frumkin took all the books he could get about anarchism – Kropotkin , Reclus , Malatesta – back home. In 1896, Frumkin, still a young man, moved from Constantinople to London. He became a friend of Rudolf Rocker . 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 titled From The Spring Period of Jewish Socialism . Schapiro had to return to Constantinople in 1897. He left his print shop to Frumkin, who decided to publish his own little paper, Der Propagandist (11 issues) ending in 1897. After living briefly in British cities Liverpool and Leeds (1898), Frumkin stayed in Paris for one year. In 1899, he returned to America. Schapiro was later engaged in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and co-founded in 1922/23 the International Workers' Association in Berlin. Frumkin returned to the US, where he died April 29, 1940. The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest (1st ed.).

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