Mapping Urban Cafés and Modern Jewish CultureMain MenuAbout the ProjectSholem Aleichem and Menakhem Mendel travelsThe "Demolished Literature" of Karl Kraus' ViennaSeeing into the Lower East Side CafésOdessa CafesOdessaZoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78eIsabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8
Avraham Leib Shalkovich (a.k.a. Ben-Avigdor)
12018-03-27T17:51:04-07:00Zoë Wilkinson Saldaña6beb73a90c38e77367b9737ee8e808917759a78e197495plain2018-07-17T21:52:26-07:00Zaludok, LithuaniaFebruary 8, 1905April 4, 1905116Carlsbad, Bohemia (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)Isabella Buzynski4c5090420af98824ad786b6dac1f314b9e9f95a8Avraham Leib Shalkovich (1866–1921) was a Hebrew writer and publisher. He set up the first publicly funded Jewish printing press, Aḥi’asaf, and published a variety of Jewish literature.