SHAYE KLINOV

SHAYE KLINOV (December 7, 1890-October 22, 1963)

            He was journalist, born in Golovanevsk (Holovanivs'k), Podolia.  He attended religious elementary school, and in 1910 he graduated from a commercial school in Odessa.  He studied medicine in Geneva and law in St. Petersburg.  He was active in Jewish self-defense.  He lived in Odessa, Moscow, Kiev, Bessarabia, Berlin, and from 1933 the land of Israel.  He was a Revisionist and later switched to Mapai (Workers’ Party in the Land of Israel).  He wrote about politics, as well as Zionist and general Jewish issues.  He made his journalist’s debut in Russian in 1908, in 1917 in Yiddish in Petrograder togblat (Petrograd daily newspaper) to which he became a contributor.  He also wrote for: Dos idishe folk (The Jewish people) in Kiev, the daily newspaper Di velt (The world), the daily Der id (The Jew) in Kishinev for which he also served as co-editor, Haynt (Today) in Warsaw, Fraye arbeter shtime (Free voice of labor) in New York, Di velt in Berlin-Kovno which he co-edited with R. Rubinshteyn, the daily Di idishe shtime (The Jewish voice) in Kovno, Dos vort (The word), Di tribune (The tribune) in Berlin, Der nayer veg (The new way) in Paris (1926, with V. Jabotinsky; 1930, with Y. Shekhtman), Idishe emigratsye (Jewish emigration) in Berlin, and Kiem (Existence) in Paris.  With Vladimir Jabotinsky, he published Di revizyonistishe yugent-bavegung (The Revisionist youth movement) (Paris: Central Bureau of the Association of Zionists—Revisionists, 1929), 27 pp.  Among his longer published works: Di geshikhte fun a yidishn zelbstshuts (The history of Jewish self-defense), in Elye Tsherikover, In der tkufe fun revolutsye, memuarn, materyaln, dokumentn (In the era of revolution: memoirs, materials, documents) (Berlin: Historical archive of Eastern Jewry, 1924); “Yidn in der film-industrye” (Jews in the movie industry), Ekonomishe shriftn (Economic writings) (Vilna) 2 (1932).  In Hebrew he published the volume: Hertsl, ḥoze hamedina (Herzl, seer of the state) (Tel Aviv, 1950), 143 pp; Moade yisroel (Holidays of Israel) (Tel Aviv, 1951), 147 pp.; Tekumat yisroel (Israel reborn) (Tel Aviv, 1951), 154 pp.—and many more.  He served as correspondent for a series of Yiddish newspapers around the world and was a cofounder of the Zionist news agency “Palkor.”  He died in Jerusalem.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Getzel Kressel, Leksikon hasifrut haivrit (Handbook of Hebrew literature), vol. 2 (Merḥavya, 1967); Sefer haishim (Biographical dictionary) (Tel Aviv, 1936/1937); Y. Grinboym, in Letste nayes (Tel Aviv) (October 25, 1963); G. Svet, in Forverts (New York) (October 26, 1963); Sefer hashana shel haitonim (Newspaper yearbook) (Tel Aviv, 1963-1964), p. 183; Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).

Berl Cohen