YUDE SHIMELEVITSH (1880-January 2, 1919)
He was born
in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia.
Initially a Bundist, he was later an active Communist with important
functions in the Jewish section of the Communist Party. In Vilna he founded the daily newspaper Der komunist (The Communist) on December
27, 1918. His undercover names were
Yulyus and Reysin. He was the main hero
of M. Danyel’s play Yulyus (Julius)
and of his story “Fir teg” (Four days). He
died in Vilna.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4, who states he was born in Riga in 1888; Yankl
Gutkovitsh, Af ale teg fun a gants yor,
literarish-historisher kalendar (Every day for a full year, literary
historical calendar) (Warsaw: Yidish bukh, 1966), p. 11.
Berl Cohen
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