Gershom (Gustav) Bader was born in Cracow in 1868. He received traditional a Jewish education and taught in the Chacky School in Lemberg. He was the publisher of the annual "Yidisher Folkskalender" (1896-1908), that played an important role in the propaganda of Zionist ideas in Galicia. He was the founder of the first Yiddish daily in Austria-Hungary - "Togblat" (1904-1906, "Dos Naye Lemberger Togblat" since 1906). Bader was an editor of a number of other Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals. He wrote several Hebrew textbooks, reference sources, and historical novels. After 1912 Bader lived in New York, where he actively contributed to several Yiddish periodicals. Several of his plays in Yiddish were produced in New York. Among his important works in Yiddish are: "Tsvishen blut un fayer" (New York, Ferband fun Galitsyaner un Bukoviner Iden in Amerika, 1916), "Draysig doyres Iden in Poylen fun der ershter tsayt, vos Iden zaynen ahin gekumen voynen, biz tsum letsten "miatezsh" (New York, Oriom Pres, 1927), "Eybige emes'n : fun sforim un funm leben : kleyne mayses un sharfe famerkungen far khol-erley groyse kinder" (Vienna, Union, 1927), "Unzere gaystige riezen : dos leben un di lehren fun unzere Tanoim un Amoyroim" (New York, Moyneshter, 1934), "Mayne zikhroynes" (Buenos Aires, Tsentral-farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1953). He died in New York in 1953.