KHAYIM
LEVIT (DOBROV) (1860-1911)
He came from southern Russia. After completing high school, he joined the
revolutionary movement. He was arrested
in 1883, and in 1896 he went abroad and until 1903 worked (using the name Adolf
Levitsi) as a journalist for the German socialist press, later returning illegally
to Russia and becoming active in the party of the Socialist
Revolutionaries. He was then arrested once
again, but as a Greek citizen (according to a false passport), he was exiled
from Russia, and he settled in Berlin where he was active in “non-partisan
circles of revolutionaries,” writing proclamations and pamphlets for all
revolutionary organizations in Russia.
He approached the Bund, 1905-1906, and published articles in Evreiskii rabochi (Jewish labor) in St.
Petersburg (1905) and Veker (Alarm)
in Vilna (1905-1906). He authored a
booklet in Russian on the first Duma (1906)[1]; and Di revolutsye in england (The revolution in England) (Vilna: Di
velt, 1907), 77 pp., using the name N. Dobrov.
In 1907 he left for Finland and stood close to the Bolshevik faction of
the Russian social democrats. He died in
Berlin.
Sources:
Frants Shmidt (Kurski), in Tsukunft
(New York) (December 1921), pp. 704-7; Zalmen Reyzen, Psevdonimen in der yidisher literatur (Pseudonyms in Yiddish
literature) (Vilna, 1939), p. 14.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[1] Probably: Rossiiskii
parlament i taktika proletariata (The Russian parliament and tactics of the
proletariat) (Geneva, 1906), 70 pp. (JAF)
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