KHAYIM-YUDE KHAZAN (ḤAZAN)
(1876-November 5, 1906)
He was born in a town near Kovno,
Lithuania. He studied in religious
primary school, yeshiva, and secular subjects through self-study. In 1899 he moved to Warsaw. He later played a leading role in the Zionist
Socialists in Russia. He published
articles in his party press and in Fraynd
(Friend) in St. Petersburg, Hatsfira
(The siren) in Warsaw, and elsewhere. He
authored pamphlets in Yiddish and Hebrew, among them: Zangvil iber teritoryalizmus (Zangwill on territorialism) (Warsaw,
1906), 16 pp.; Konstitutsyon un
teritoryalizmus (Constitution and territorialism), with a foreword and
characterization by M. Ben-Yemini and a few words by Sh. Y. Yatskan (Warsaw:
Medine, 1906), 38 pp. He wrote the
latter pamphlet on his sickbed, and it appeared in print several days after his
death. He died in Warsaw.
Source:
T. Ben-Yemini and Sh. Y. Yatskan, forewords to Konstitutsyon un teritoryalizmus (Constitution and territorialism)
(Warsaw, 1906), pp. 3-8.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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