EFRYOIKIN Zalman (1896, Veksnyai - ?) - publicist, educator, social activist. Brother of I. Efroikin.

Zalman Efroikin graduated from a real school as an external student. After World War I, he graduated from a Jewish teachers' seminary in Riga and was an active member of the Bund. After the revolution of 1917, he lived in Latvia, where he was one of the organisers of Jewish schools and cultural institutions, as well as a teacher. From 1921, he lived in the United States. He was the director of a Jewish school.

As a journalist he made his debut in Liepāja in the Russian newspaper ‘Libavsky Vestnik’ and in the German edition ‘Libavskaya Gazeta,’ and was also published in the Jewish periodicals of St. Petersburg, Warsaw, and New York. In the early 1930s, he edited the children's newspaper and magazine ‘Kultur und Unterhaltung’ in Yiddish. Zalman Efroikin is the author (together with H. Bez) of the literary and social anthology Unser Wort (1933) and textbooks for Hebrew schools: Mein Sprachbuch (1938), Dos Yiddishe Wort (1947), Bim Kval (1948), and others, which were widely used by Jewish teachers in the United States and other countries.