Rabinovitsh, Yankev
November 16, 1909–
He was a journalist, born in Telz, Lithuania. He studied in religious elementary school, later in a Hebrew-German school in Berlin. He was secretary of the Zionist socialist party in Lithuania.
He was rescued from the Kovno ghetto, lived several years in Italy, and in 1948 made his way to Montreal where he worked for a time as a Hebrew teacher.
He wrote articles and reportage pieces for: the Kovno daily newspaper Dos Vort (The Word), earlier known as Unzer Vort (Our Word), 1934-1940; Afrikaner Idishe Tsaytung (African Jewish Newspaper); and Keneder Adler (Keneder Odler, Canadian Eagle). Later, he edited the Montreal page in Algemeyne Zhurnal (General Journal) in New York. In book form: Bleter fun yidish lite (Pages from Jewish Lithuania) (Tel Aviv, 1974), 289 pp.
He was last living in Montreal (1981). His pen names: Y. Rabino and Y. Yankevson.
Moyshe Kleynman also used the pen name ציוני פשוט Tsiyoni Pashut
YANKEV RABINOVITSH under the pen name Tsiyoni Poshet wrote a booklet on Labour Zionism Di vikhtigkeyt fun yudishen arbayter in Erets-Isroel (The importance of Jewish workers in Erets-Yisroel).- Odes : ferlag Tsionistishe kopike-bibliotek, 1912.- 16 pp.
די וויכטיגקייט פון יודישען ארבייטער אין ארץ ישראל
פון ציוני פשוט
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