YANKEV
GERSHUNI (b. September 2, 1902)
He was born in Grodno, western Russia. He received a Jewish and a secular
education. In 1935 he earned the title
of doctor of economic science from Zurich University. He then moved to Paris. He was a leader in the Zionist movement. During WWII he served as a volunteer in the
French Army and was captured by the Germans.
After the war he returned to Paris.
He supervised, 1949-1950, the emigration of Moroccan Jews to the state
of Israel. He was a member of the
guiding agencies in the Zionist Federation of France and in the Federation of
Jewish Societies. Between 1929 and 1947,
he served as the Parisian correspondent for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German), later turning to write in
Yiddish, and in 1947 he became editor of the newspaper Unzer vort (Our word) in Paris, in which he published articles on
Jewish and general issues. Over the
years 1950-1952, he edited the French weekly newspaper, La parole (The word). He
authored the book Nachkriegsprobleme des
Judentum (Postwar problems of Judaism), in German. In 1955 he visited the United States.
Sources:
S. Regensberg, in Forverts (New York)
(June 7, 1955); Who’s Who in World Jewry
(New York, 1955).
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