YANKEV
VARSHAVSKI
He was born in Radom, Poland. He graduated from the Jewish public school in
Warsaw. He cofounded the Zionist Revisionism
organization from the Revisionist Zionist youth organization Masada in
Poland. He served as vice-director of a
Tarbut school in Warsaw. In 1930 he
became a resident of Bialystok and leader of the local Revisionist movement. He was a member of the Bialystok city
council. He contributed pieces to Undzer lebn (Our life) in Bialystok, as
well as to a series of Zionist Revisionist organs. His books include: Di organizatsye fun der yidisher kehile in poyln (The organization
of the Jewish community in Poland) (Bialystok, 1932), 110 pp. He was murdered by the Germans in WWII.
Sources:
Byalistoker leksikon (Bialystok
handbook) (Bialystok, 1935); Undzer lebn
(Bialystok) (April 3, 1938).
Yankev Kohen
No comments:
Post a Comment