Abraham Koralnik

Abraham Coralnik (October 16, 1883 – July 16, 1937) was a Ukrainian-born Jewish-American Yiddish writer, journalist, and newspaper editor.

Life Coralnik was born on October 16, 1883, in Uman, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire, the son of David and Gittel Coralnik. His brother Berl Coralnik was editor of the Jerusalem Bureau, Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Coralnik initially attended the University of Kyiv, which had a severe Jewish quota at the time. He left shortly afterwards to study in universities abroad. He studied in Florence, Berlin, Bonn, and Vienna. He wrote his doctoral thesis in 1908 on the philosophy of skepticism and received a Ph.D. from Vienna that year. In 1903, he began writing in German as a correspondent for the Zionist newspaper Die Welt. He later edited German periodicals in Czernowitz, Vienna, and Zagreb. He also wrote for German philosophical journals and major German newspapers as well as several German dramas. He wrote for several Russian newspapers, and in 1911 he became a correspondent for the St. Petersburg newspaper Rech. In 1922, he published Das Russenbuch (The Russian Book), an anthology of Russian literature. From 1908 to 1913, some of his essays appeared in the Berlin paper Ha-Atid (The Future). In 1914, he briefly lived in Copenhagen. In 1915, he emigrated to New York City and became a contributor for the Yiddish newspaper Der Tog. He only rarely wrote in Yiddish until then. He was president of the Union of Ukrainian Jews in America and the Jewish Writers' Club. He was also a member of the administrative committee of the American Jewish Congress.

Coralnik was married to Sara Gorodetski, an organic chemist and a librarian for the American Jewish Congress. They had two daughters, Beatrice and Zoe.