Brahms Yakov (1898, Libava - 1981) - journalist.

Yakov Brahms studied at the St. Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute, in 1917 - at Mikhailovsky Artillery School. After the October 1917 revolution he returned to Latvia. In August-September 1919 he was editor of the independent democratic newspaper ‘Narod (People)’ (owners Y. Brams and B. Polak, actual editors: N. Berezhanski, M. Hanfman, B. Khariton, M. Milrud; 16 issues were published). In 1920 he published the independent democratic newspaper ‘Rizhsky Den (Riga Day)’ (editor V. Pravdin; 5 issues were published). Founder and publisher of the Riga newspaper ‘Segodnya (Today)’, the largest and most informative of the Russian newspapers in the Baltics in 1919-40 (main staff: A. Averchenko, M. Aizenstadt, Y. Aikhenvald, M. Aldanov, A. Amfirov, A. Aldanov, M. Averchenko, M. Averchenko, M. Eisenstadt. Aldanov, A. Amfiteatrov, K. Balmont, N. Volkovysky, Y. Galich, M. Ganfman, S. Gorny, A. Damanskaya, Izygoev, V. Iretsky, A. Kizevetter, V. Klopotovsky-Leri, L. Munstein, Lev Maxim, S. Mintslov, Vas. Iv. Nemirovich-Danchenko, Jacques Noir-Oxner, B. Orechkin, M. Pervukhin, P. Pilsky, I. Severyanin, Y. Sudrabkaln, V. Tretyakov).

In 1939 Yakov Brahms emigrated to the USA, from 1941 he owned a Swedish restaurant in Washington.