Morris Applebaum Well-known London Jewish Painter Dies in Poland at Age of 44

Morris Applebaum, the Jewish painter who lived in London some years ago, has died of pneumonia at Kattowitz at the age of 44.

Applebaum was born at Amshenov, near Warsaw, the birthplace of the famous Yiddish writer, the late H.D. Nomberg, whom he knew well in his early days. He came to England as a young man, living at first in Liverpool, where he has a brother, who is a prominent Esperantist (he has been President of the English Esperantist Association) and afterwards at Swansea. He was opposed to the war and when Russians were called up to the army, he refused to serve and went to prison as a conscientious objector. On his release he settled in London, painting and exhibiting, and occasionally writing on art in the “Jewish Times”. He was also active in the Poale-Zion organisation. He held an exhibition in London in 1920, which was opened by the late Dr. Max Nordau, who spoke of his work with praise. The same year he was deported to Poland for a technical failure to register a change of address.

In Poland Applebaum continued his work, painting and exhibiting his pictures from time to time, and occasionally writing articles on art and criticisms of art exhibitions for the Yiddish pres.