TEODOR ROTSHTEYN (b. ca. 1865)[1]
A
Russian-Yiddish journalist, he was born in Poltava. He moved in his youth to London. He was active in the English socialist
movement and press. At the beginning of
the century, he grew closer to the group of Jewish social democrats in
England. He later became a Communist,
and in 1917 returned to Russia, and he assumed an important position in the Commissariat
of Foreign Affairs. He was one of the
editors of the first great Soviet encyclopedia.
In 1900 he edited for a short time the social democratic weekly Di naye velt (The new world) which
lasted for one and one-half years. With
its revival in March 1904, under the title Di
naye tsayt (The new time), Rotshteyn was its editor, though not for long. He was the London correspondent for the Vilna
Bundist daily newspaper Veker (Alarm)
(or Folks-tsaytung [People’s
newspaper]). He published there and in
other Bundist publications. For many
years he wrote letters from England and articles to Tsukunft (Future) and Forverts
(Forward) in New York. He often wrote the
first letter of his first name with a taf
(ת)
[rather than the usual tet (ט)]. He died in Mexico City.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4; D. Shub, in Forverts
(New York) (July 12, 1964; January 24, 1965).
Yekhezkl Lifshits
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