SHIYE
NEKER (1880-November 13, 1919)
He was born in Galicia and worked in
a bookbindery. He joined the labor
movement as a youth. He was initially a
member of PPS (Polish Socialist Party [Polska Partia Socjalistyczna]) and was
active among Jewish laborers. He later
stood with the opposition which demanded autonomy for Jewish labor. When the Jewish Social Democratic Party was
founded in 1905, he became one of its activists. In April 1905 when the newspaper Der yudisher sotsyal-demokrat (The
Jewish social democrat) was launched, he served as its first editor, and later
when the newspaper moved to Cracow, he was its manager and editor. As a speaker and organizer, he contributed to
the trade union movement. He died in
Cracow.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2, with
a bibliography; Y. Shatski, Yoyvl-zamlbukh
lekoved 250 yor yidishe prese (Jubilee collection in honor of 250 years of
the Yiddish press) (New York, 1937), p. 324; Doyres bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 2 (New York, 1956),
with a bibliography.
Yankev Kahan
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