Sorezon, Yekhezkl
September[1] 15, 1863–August 16, 1933
He was a newspaper publisher, born in Suvalk (Suwałki), Poland, the son of Kasriel-Tsvi Sorezon.
He emigrated to the United States in 1876. He studied to be a lawyer. From his youth, he was tied to his father’s Yiddish newspaper, and after the latter’s death, he took over (with his brother-in-law Leon Kameyka)
Yidishes Tageblat (Jewish Daily Newspaper) and
Yudishe Gazetten (Jewish Gazette).
For a short time, he also published
Di Yudishe Shpayz-Gazet (The Jewish Food Gazette) in New York.
He died in New York.
[1] Zalmen Reyzen gives a birthdate of April 15, 1863.
Sources: Moyshe Shtarkman, Moyshe Shtarkman, in Yorbukh fun amopteyl fun YIVO (Yearbook of the American division of YIVO), vol. 1 (New York, 1938), reprinted with notes in Shtarkman, Geklibene shriftn (Selected writings) (Tel Aviv, 1979), pp. 77-161 (see also the bibliography of his father, Kasriel-Tsvi Sorezon).