Abraham Zinger

Abraham Zinger (Hebrew: אברהם זינגער; 1864, Kapulye – 1920, Babroysk) was a Russian-Jewish author, feuilletonist, and translator.

Orphaned at the age of 10, he studied at Minsk, Slutsk, Pinsk, Nesvizh, and Mir, meanwhile encountering Haskalah literature.

[2] He worked as a Hebrew teacher in Warsaw from 1888,[3] but fled to his hometown during the Russian withdrawal from Poland in 1915.

[4] Amid the pogroms following Operation Minsk, he attempted in 1920 to return to Warsaw, but contracted typhus on the way there.

[2] In about 1885, Zinger began writing stories and articles for Hebrew periodicals like Ha-Melitz, Ha-Asif, and Knesset Israel [he].