WILLIAM
POKHOTSKI (May 23, 1881-August 1, 1945)
He was born in Tomsk, Siberia; his
father, from Suwalk, was deported there for taking part in the Polish Uprising
of 1863. In 1896 he returned with his
family to Suwalk. In Poland William
Pokhotski joined the revolutionary movement and became a member of the
Bund. He wrote revolutionary poems in
Russian. He was arrested in Suwalk and
in Warsaw. In 1905 he made his way to
the United States and there contributed to the Jewish trade union and socialist
movement. His journalistic activities in
Yiddish began in Tsaytgayst (Spirit
of the times) in New York (1908) with articles on labor issues. He also penned stories and feature pieces for
a variety of periodicals, among them: Fraye
arbeter-shtime (Free voice of labor), Tsukunft
(Future), and Vokhntsaytung (Weekly
newspaper) in New York. He published and
edited Lustige bleter (Joyous pages)
in New York. From 1915 he was regular
contributor to Morgn zhurnal (Morning
journal) in New York (later, the labor editor).
He mainly wrote news and articles on industry problems and labor issues,
from time to time also sketches and features, occasionally under the pen name
Graf Pototski. He Americanized his name
to William Post. He died in New York.
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2; Tsukunft (New York) (September 1945); Hadoar (New York) (August 10, 1945);
Moyshe Shtarkman, in Hadoar (May 23,
1949); Harry L. Schneiderman, in Jewish
Book Annual V (1946-1947), p. 103.
Yankev Kahan
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