Career
Born in Jerusalem, he spent a year in Jaffa as a teacher of Arabic. In 1891 he went to Constantinople to study law but did not graduate because of lack of funds. In 1893 he went to New York and came in contact with anarchist ideas for the first time.
By 1894 he had returned to Constantinople with lots of anarchist books and propaganda material.
Schapiro, who had to flee from Russia because of his revolutionary activities, was soon inflamed by the new ideas and went together with Frumkin to Paris and London. From London the Yiddish anarchist paper Arbeiterfraind was sent to Constantinople where the Jewish community around Schapiro welcomed him.
In 1896 Abraham Frumkin, still as a young man, moved from Constantinople (Istanbul) to London. Then, in 1896, they decided to go to London to open a print shop for Yiddish anarchist booklets.
Schapiro had to return to Constantinople in 1897.
He left his print shop to Frumkin, who decided to publish his own little paper Der Propagandist (11 issues) ending in 1897. After a while in Liverpool and Leeds (1898) Frumkin went to Paris, and stayed there for one year. In 1899 he again went to America 1899.
Frumkin went to the United States where he died in 1946.