PEYSEKH DEMBITSER

PEYSEKH DEMBITSER (May 19, 1889-March 26-1937)

            He was born in Cracow, son of the religious judge of Cracow, Pinkhes-Elyahu.  He received a religious education.  From 1908 he was living in Belgium, Switzerland, and England.  He returned to Cracow in 1914.  He established a factory for young laborers in Cracow.  He was the spokesman for Galician Bundists.  He took part in the unification conference of the Żydowska Partia Socjalistyczna (Jewish socialist party) and the Bund in Galicia.  From the early 1920s he was a resident of the United States.  He was the organizer of the Cracow branch of the Workmen’s Circle and an active leader of the Jewish Socialist Union.  He was known as an ardent fighter for Yiddish and the founder of the school association “Undzere kinder” (Our children).  From 1908 to 1919, he wrote for Sotsyal-demokrat (Social democrat) articles on socialist themes.  He also published in Veker (Alarm) in New York and was assistant editor of Gerekhtikeyt (Justice).  He died in New York.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; G. Bader, Poylishe yidn (Polish Jews), annual (1937); Y. Sh. Herts, Di yidishe sotsyalistishe bavegung in amerike (The Jewish socialist movement in America) (New York, 1954), see index; Herts, ed., Doyres bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 2 (New York, 1956), see index.