YEKHEZKL KANTOR (b. December 8, 1878)
He was
born in Rogatshov (Rogachev), Byelorussia.
He studied in religious elementary school and public school. He graduated from the Jewish teachers’
institute and went on to study at Berlin University. As a young man he joined the Bund and was
arrested on several occasions. At the
time of the government of the central assembly in Ukraine (1918-1919), he
served as Jewish Commissar for school affairs in the Kiev region and later
worked in the Commissariat for Public Education in Moscow. He began his literary work with illegal
Yiddish leaflets, and he contributed to Kiev’s Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper) (1917-1918), Shul un lebn (School and life), and Emes (Truth), among other serials. In book form: Politisher alefbeys (Political alphabet) (Moscow: Krasnaya Nov,
1922), 95 pp.[1] He used as pen names: Davidov, Y. K., and
K-r.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3.
Berl Cohen
[1] In Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications
in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), there is mentioned such a
pamphlet with the same number of pages, but with the publisher given as ORT and
attributed to “Yankev Kantor.”
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