MIKHL IVENSKI (MICHAEL EVENSKY)

MIKHL IVENSKI (MICHAEL EVENSKY) (1880-June 30, 1954)

     Born in Lide (Lida), Poland.  He studied in religious schools.  He emigrated to the United States while still young.  From 1908 he was a leader in the Workmen’s Circle and he was an active Bundist.  After the founding of the Jewish state, he went and settled there, returning after a time to New York.  He wrote on political and social-economic issues.  He contributed pieces to Forverts (Forward), Tsukunft (Future), Davar (Word, Tel Aviv), and Sefer hashanah leyehudi amerika (Yearbook for American Jews) which was part of a larger work, Tenuat hapoalim hayehudim baamerika (Jewish workers’ movement in America).  He was co-editor of the Forverts almanakh (Forward almanac) for 1935 (together with B. Vladek and Elias Miler).  His books would include: Bukhfirung far brentshes fun arbiter ring un enlekhe organizatsyes (Bookkeeping for the branches of the Workmen’s Circle and similar organizations) (New York, 1922), 128 pp.; Arn shmuel liberman, zayn shturmisher lebn un tragisher sof (Arn Shmuel Liberman, his violent life and tragic end) (New York, 1934), 24 pp.  In Hebrew: Betside derakhim (On the sidelines), a collection of essays and memoirs including treatises on Jewish socialism.

Sources: N. Khanin, in Der fraynd (New York) (July-August 1954); Dr. A. Mukdoni, in Morgn-zhurnal (April 1935); Y. Leshtsinski, in Forverts (Januray 6, 1952).