NOSN GEZENTSVEY

NOSN GEZENTSVEY

            Under the name Yokhanen Hakanai, he edited (with Z. Sinani) Fragn fun program un taktik, ershte teyl (Questions of program and tactics, first part) (Geneva: Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, 1905).  Grigori Aronson has informed us that this was the pseudonym of Nosn Gezentsvey, an activist for the Socialist Revolutionaries.  Another of his pen names was Zaratustra.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 164.

[N.B. See entry under “An-Sky” for some differing information—JAF.]