KHAYIM
PIZHITS (1897-ca. 1940)
He was born in Mlave (Mława), Poland, into a
wealthy Hassidic family. At age
seventeen he passed the baccalaureate examination as an external student. During WWI he was active in the Bundist
movement in Mława. In the 1920s he studied economics and social
science at the University of Vienna and received his doctoral degree there. He then moved to Warsaw and for many years was
head of the Bundist emigration office and active in the leadership of the
Kultur-lige (Culture League). He was one
of the initiators and editors of the anthology Sotsyalistishe bleter (Socialist sheets), 96 pp., which appeared as
a factional publication of the right wing of the Polish Bund. Over the course of years, he was the editor of
Arbeter sportler (Laborer sportsman),
monthly organ of the worker-sports association in Warsaw. For a time he edited the Bundist Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper) and
contributed to the Bundist newspaper Walka (Polish for “struggle”)
in Cracow (1924-1928) and to Yugnt-veker
(Youth alarm) in Warsaw. At the time of
the Nazi occupation, he fled to Vilna in the summer of 1940 and attempted in a
secret manner to get to Sweden, but he was arrested by the Soviets and was
killed.
Sources:
H. Gelernt, in Forverts (New York)
(August 19, 1949); E. N-ski, in Pinkes
mlave (Records of Mława)
(New York, 1950), pp. 293-99; Doyres
bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 1 (New York, 1956), pp. 321-24.
Leyb Vaserman
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