ZALMEN
SORKIN
He was born in Lyady (?), and he
later lived in Vitebsk, Byelorussia. He
was an external student in high school and a fervent Labor Zionist. He led a struggle against the community
leaders of his town for permission to hold a Labor Zionist lecture in a small synagogue. He worked by filthy channels and lugged
bricks and lime in the construction of buildings. He moved to Argentina and worked there for
various householders as an assistant house-painter and lived a very difficult
life. He possessed no more than his work
clothes and would attend meetings in them and give Labor Zionist speeches. He later became the leader of the theorists
of Labor Zionism in Argentina. He wrote
political articles for the periodical Broyt
un erd (Bread and soil), published 1909-1910. In 1910 he was arrested in Buenos Aires. After two months in jail, he was deported
from the country. He went on to live in
Soviet Russia.
Sources:
Volf Bresler, Antologye fun der yidisher literatur in argentine
(Anthology of Jewish literature in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1944), p. 934; P.
Kats, Geklibene shriftn (Selected
writings), vol. 5 (Buenos Aires), p. 103.
Leyb Vaserman
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