BADER, GERSHOM

(1868-1953)

   Polish Hebrew and Yiddish author. Born in Krakow, he lived in Lemberg from 1893 until 1912. He founded the first Yiddish daily in Galicia, the Togblat in 1904. In 1896 he established the Yidisher folks-kalender, which he edited until 1912; in that year he settled in New York. His writings include a life of Jesus, a lexicon of Galician Jewish cultural figures, and a dictionary of talmudic abbreviations.