Jacob Lestschinsky
Jakob Lestschinsky (also Jacob Lestschinsky, Yankev Leshtshinski, Yankev Leshchinski, לשצ'ינסקי, יעקב; August 26, 1876 in
Life
Born near Kyiv, he received a traditional Jewish education. As a teenager, he was deeply moved by Hebrew writer Ahad Ha'am. After university study in Switzerland for a decade, he returned to Russia in 1913. He was involved in various Zionist and socialist political activities, such as the Zionist Socialist Workers Party.
After being imprisoned in the aftermath of the October Revolution, he left Russia in 1921 for Berlin. There he was a correspondent for the New York Yiddish daily Forverts, a role he continued for more than 40 years. He left Germany for Warsaw in 1934, emigrated to the United States in 1938, and finally to Israel in 1959. And Lestschinsky jacob sent a dispatch to Forward which was published in the New York Times on March 26, 1933; in it he said: "The Hitler regime flames up with anger because it has been compelled through fear of public foreign opinion to forego a mass slaughter of Jews.[4]
YIVO
He was a founding member of
Selected works
- Yidishe Folk in Tsifern (1922)
- Jüdische Bevölkerungsbewegung (1926)
- "Die Umsiedlung und Umschichtung des jüdischen Volkes im Laufe des letzten Jahrhunderts" (1929), Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, 30: 123-156
- Di Yidishe Katastrofe (1944)
- Crisis, Catastrophe, and Survival: A Jewish Balance Sheet, 1914–1948 (1948)
- Erev Hurbn (1951)
References
- ^ Marcus, Jacob Rader; Daniels, Judith M., Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography, p. 368
- S2CID 154508394.
- ^ Natalia Aleksiun (2010). "Lestschinsky, Jakob". YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ^ "Lestschinsky, Jakob". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 22 January 2013.
- ISBN 9780199380954.