MOYSHE KROL

MOYSHE KROL (1862-June 1943)

            He was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine.  He received a traditional Jewish education.  In 1881 he was expelled from St. Petersburg University for revolutionary work.  He was a member of the executive of Narodnaia Volya (People’s will).  In 1887 he was exiled to Siberia, and there he studied the primitive Siberian tribes.  Kratko’s ethnographic research was published in the publications of the Russian Geographical Society.  In 1928 he came to the United States.  He wrote numerous essays for Tsukunft (Future) on general political and socialist themes, Jewish history, and issues involving the Far East.  There he published a series of articles of memoirs concerning his revolutionary activities.  He died in Nice.

Source: Tsukunft (New York) 8 (1928); K. Leytes, in Tsukunft 3 (1944); Vladimir Grosman, Mentshn un problemen, zikhroynes un gedanken (People and problems, memoirs and thoughts) (Paris, 1964), pp. 61-72; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).

Yekhezkl Lifshits