DOVID ZIGLER

DOVID ZIGLER (December 10, 1907-summer 1932)

            He was born in Sasov (Sasów), eastern Galicia.  At age sixteen he moved to Cracow, and there he worked as a business employee.  He was one of the founders of Poale Agudat Yisrael (Workers for [ultra-Orthodox] Agudat Yisrael) and its candidate for the Polish Sejm.  His journalistic activities began at the organ of Agudat Yisrael, Di yudishe shtime (The Jewish voice) in Cracow, in which he published (also under the pen name Abramski) articles on issues facing religious Jewry, mainly religious Jewish laborers in Poland.  He was later a co-editor of the newspaper.  He also wrote articles for Yudishes tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper) in Warsaw and other publications put out by religious Jews in Poland.  He died in Sasov, Poland.

Source: Information from Moyshe Zigler in Jerusalem.

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