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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