LAZAR KLING

LAZAR KLING (b. 1891)

            He was born in Byale (Biała), Shedlets (Siedlce) district.  He came to the United States in 1912.  He made his way to the Soviet Union in 1926 and returned two years later.  He debuted in print in 1906 in Tsayt gayst (Spirit of the times) in New York.  He also wrote for: Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor), Tog (Day), and Der fraynd (The friend) in New York; Di velt (The world) in Chicago; Idishe tsaytung (Jewish newspaper) and Avangard (Avant-garde) in Argentina; and Oktyabr (October) in Minsk.  He co-edited (1919-1920) the leftist weekly newspapers Kamf (Struggle) and Funken (Sparks).  In book form: Arbet un kamf (Work and struggle) (New York: Epokhe, 1923), 191 pp.  His translations include: Karl Kautsky’s Der krig un di sotsyal-demokratye (The war and social democracy) in Fraye arbeter shtime; Lenin, Di parteyen un di oyfgabn fun proletaryat (The parties and the tasks of the proletariat); and Christian Rakovsky, Der krig un der internatsyonal (The war and the International)—both in Kamf.

Yekhezkl Lifshits