Abraham Frumkin

Abraham Frumkin
אברהם פרומקין
Illustration of Frumkin by Jacob Epstein
Born	1873 (1873) Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
Died	29 April 1940(1940-04-29) (aged 66–67) New York City, United States
Occupations	Author Journalist
Father	Israel Dov Frumkin
Relatives	Gad Frumkin (brother)

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.