YITSKHOK KLETSHEVSKI

YITSKHOK KLETSHEVSKI (1893-April 14, 1968)

            He was for many years a Bundist leader in Lodz and Warsaw.  He survived the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.  In 1958 he settled in Paris.  He began writing in Bundist periodicals prior to WWI.  He was secretary of the editorial board of the Bundist Folks-tsaytung (People’s newspaper) and Veker (Alarm) in Kiev, later the Kalish (Kalisz) correspondent for Warsaw’ Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper).  He also wrote for Unzer vort (Our word) in Paris.  He died in Paris.

Sources: Khayim Leyb Fuks, Lodzh shel mayle, dos yidishe gaystiḳe un derhoybene lodzh, 100 yor yidishe un oykh hebreishe literatur un kultur in lodzh un in di arumiḳe shtet un shtetlekh (Lodz on high, the Jewish spiritual and elevated Lodz, 100 years of Yiddish and also Hebrew literature and culture in Lodz and in the surrounding cities and towns) (Tel Aviv: Perets Publ., 1972), p. 251; information from Y. Kempinski in New York.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 487.