Sunday, 3 January 2016

YISAKHAR ARTUSKI

YISAKHAR ARTUSKI (May 4, 1903-December 16, 1971)
            He was born with the surname Aykhenboym in Warsaw.  He was initially a Communist activist, and he spent years in Polish prisons for such.  In 1935 he switched to join the Bund in which he became quite active.  First in Warsaw and after WWII he was living in Paris; he moved to Israel in 1951.  He published articles in Folks-tsaytung (People’s newspaper) in Warsaw, Unzer shtime (Our voice) in Paris, and Lebns-fragn (Life issues) in Tel Aviv—and he edited the last of these.  In 1976 he published: Yid, mentsh, sotsyalist, y. artuski ondenk-bukh (Jew, man, socialist: Y. Artuski’s memoirs) (Tel Aviv: Lebns-fragn), 416 pp.

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