Abraham Coralnik (October 16, 1883 – July 16, 1937) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American Yiddish writer, journalist, and newspaper editor.
His brother Berl Coralnik was editor of the Jerusalem Bureau, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
[2] Coralnik initially attended the University of Kyiv, which had a severe Jewish quota at the time.
In 1915, he emigrated to New York City and became a contributor for the Yiddish newspaper Der Tog.
[1] In 1917, following the Russian Revolution, he returned to Russia and became a member of the Kerensky government's Food Ministry.
He also wrote essays for Tsukunft (Future), Tealit (Theater and Literature), and Fraye Arbeter Shtime (Free Voice of Labor).
In May 1933, he founded the American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights in response to the rise of Nazism.
He also organized the World Jewish Economic Conference in Amsterdam with Samuel Untermyer to coordinate an international anti-Nazi boycott, which met with little success.
[6] Coralnik was married to Sara Gorodetski, an organic chemist and a librarian for the American Jewish Congress.