BER
KANTOR (b. March 15, 1880)
He was born in Vorne (Varniai),
Lithuania. He came to the United States
in 1900. He took up many trades. He was active in the socialist and later the
Communist movement. From 1905 he was
writing sketches drawn from American Jewish labor life and cultural affairs
for: Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice
of labor), Forverts (Forward), Varhayt (Truth), and Frayhayt (Freedom)—in New York; and Tsayt (Times) in London). In 1915 he edited the labor section of Louis
Miller’s Der fihrer (The
leader). In book form: Der sof tsu milkhomes (The end to wars),
poetry (New Rochelle, n.d.), 59 pp.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.
Berl Cohen
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