November 26, 1883-1941
He was a Polish Jewish journalist, born in Lublin. He graduated from a senior high school in Warsaw and studied further at Cracow University. In late 1939 he was rescued into Soviet Russia and there he died in Sumy, Kherson district.
His journalistic work began in 1913 in Polish; he wrote for Polish Jewish newspapers, and ultimately he was one of the principal contributors to Nasz Przegląd (Our Overview), the widely distributed Polish Jewish newspaper. In 1914 he began publishing articles in Fraynd (Friend). He wrote mainly about international politics and Zionism in Haynt (Today), Dos Yudishe Folk (The Jewish People) which was later combined with Haynt, and Ilustrirte Bleter (Illustrated Newspaper) in Warsaw (1928). From 1917 he was a member of the editorial board of the weekly Bafrayung (Liberation), organ of the Zionist socialist Tseire-Tsiyon (Zionist Youth).
In Yiddish he also wrote under the pseudonyms: Bar-Nash and Sigma.
He penned the pamphlets: Yung-Tsienizm un Folks-Sotsyalizm (Young Zionism and People’s Socialism) (Berlin, 1918), 7 pp.; Di Internatsyonale Lage fun Erets-Yisroel un di Badaytung Fun’m Mandat (The International Condition of the Land of Israel and the Significance of the Mandate) (Warsaw: Bafrayung, 1922), 27 pp.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, vol. 4; Zusman Segalovitsh, Tlomatske 13, fun Farbrentn Nekhtn (13tłomackie St., of Scorched Yesterdays) (Buenos Aires, 1946), see index; Itonut yehudit shehayta(Jewish Press That Was) (Tel Aviv, 1973), pp. 213, 221; Khayim Finkelshteyn, Haynt, a Tsaytung bay Yidn, 1908-1939 (Haynt [Today], a Newspaper for Jews, 1908-1939) (Tel Aviv, 1978), see index.