YANKEV-YITSKHOK KAPITANTSHIK (b. May 15, 1882)
He was
born into a poor family in Sławięcice. At age five they moved to Brisk (Brest). He was an active leader in the Bund, using
the name Yankele. He was arrested on
many occasions. In 1906 he fled to
Argentina. There he grew close to the
anarchists and wrote for their Dos fraye vort (The free
word). He later moved to London and
published there in Idisher zhurnal (Jewish journal)
and Idisher ekspres (Jewish
express); from 1913 in Di tsayt (The times) as well.
He published a one-act play entitled Slek, a bild fun arbayter leben in london (Slack,
a portrait of working life in London) (London, 1922), 16 pp.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.
Berl Cohen
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