DOVID GOLD (February 22, 1898-November 10, 1948)
He later used the name David Kalai,
born in Szczekoczin, Kielce region, Poland, into a merchant family. He studied in the yeshiva of the Gerer rebbe,
and for a time he was secretary for the yeshiva. He began writing when young, sending his
writings in Hebrew to the religious newspaper of the Poltava rabbi, Hapeles
(The balance), in Berlin. He later
published in Moment (Moment) in Warsaw depictions of yeshiva life and of
young people in small towns; for that reason, he was expelled from the
yeshiva. He taught himself much of
worldly subject matter. Under the
influence of his brother, he became involved in Zionist and Jewish cultural
activities. He served as secretary of
the association Kultur (Culture), was founder of the Radom Zionist organization
and its secretary, and was one of the founders and leaders of Hashomer (The
guardian). In 1918 he was living in Warsaw. He was active in the Tseire Tsiyon (Young
Zionists) movement and published feature articles in the weekly Bafrayung
(Liberation). In 1920 he made aliya to
the land of Israel. He worked in the
Palestine press and was an active leader in Aḥdut haavoda (Union of labor) and in Histadrut (Federation
of labor). He was the author of a number
of books in Hebrew and the translator of Otto Bauer, Karl Marx, and Ferdinand
Lassalle. In Yiddish he published Di
tsveyte aliye (The second aliya) (Tel Aviv, 1947), 80 pp. He edited publications of Shtibl Publishing
House, Entsiklopedyah kelalit (General encyclopedia), and the
encyclopedia Neurim (Youth). He
was the editor of Sefer haishim (Book of personalities) (Tel Aviv,
1936), 375 pp., and in his last years he was in charge of the archive and museum
of the Israeli labor movement. He died
in Israel.
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