(YEKHIEL-) MOYSHE TSITRINOVITSH (September 18,
1894-January 1965)
He was
born in Lodz, Poland, into a poor family.
He studied in religious elementary school, was a textile worker in his
youth, and quickly became a labor leader and organizer of a trade union. During WWI he ended up in Berlin where he was
a student of Z. Rubashov (Shazar), joined the Labor Zionist movement, and
founded the Y. L. Perets association.
The German police deported him to Poland. There he became one of the leading members
among the Labor Zionists. He was
arrested on several occasions. At the
time of the Nazi invasion of Poland, he made his way to Lithuania, Soviet
Russia, and Japan until he was rescued in the United States with the assistance
of the Jewish Labor Committee. He soon
became active there in “Aḥdut
haavoda, Poale Tsiyon” (Union of labor, Labor Zionists). The last fourteen years of his life he was a
member of trade unions in Philadelphia.
He began writing reportage pieces and political articles in 1918,
contributing to: Proletarisher gedank
(Proletarian idea) and Unzer veg (Our
way). He composed four anti-Hitler dramas:
A lebn far a lebn (A life for a
life), Bazol dem kheshbn, amalek (Pay
the bill, Amalek), Du oykh prometeus?
(You, too, Prometheus?), and D”r yankev
vaserman (Dr. Jacob Vaserman)—none of them were published. He died in Israel.
Sources: Kh. Brand, in Under veg (New York) (September 1954); obituary notices in the
press (January 1965).
Leyb Vaserman
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