YITSKHOK BROYDES (1879-September 17, 1946)
Born in Vilna, he was the son of R. Menachem-Meyer
Broydes. He was also the father of the
Hebrew poet Avraham Broydes. He studied
in religious primary school and synagogue study hall and was a Zionist leader
in Vilna. For a time he was active in
the Bund. He helped Sh. An-Sky found the
Jewish Ethnographic Society in Vilna.
From 1923 he was living in Palestine, where he was involved in various
communal activities. He died in Tsfat
(Sefad) and is buried in Naḥalat-Yitsḥak in the state of
Israel. He published in Fraynd
(Friend) in St. Petersburg and Di tsayt (The times) in Vilna; and edited
Idishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) in Vilna. Among his books: A shteyn in veg (A
stone in the road), drama (Vilna, 1911); in Hebrew Vilna hatsiyonit veaskanya,
agadot yerusholaim delita (Zionist Vilna and public service, tales of
Jerusalem of Lithuania) (Jerusalem, 1946).
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the founders and builders of Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1947-1971), vol. 2; Z. Zilbertsvayg, Teater-leksikon,
vol. 1.
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