Jakob Lestschinsky

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Jakob Lestschinsky (also Jacob Lestschinsky ; born August 26, 1876 in Horodyschtsche , Russian Empire ; died March 22, 1966 in Jerusalem ) was a statistician and Jewish scholar who wrote mostly in Yiddish , but also in German , who was particularly concerned with the economic situation of the Jews of Europe concerned.

Life

Lestschinsky was an autodidact who had his first publication on statistics in 1903. From 1910 he stayed in Zurich to study and returned to Russia in 1913. From 1920 he was a correspondent for the New York Yiddish-language newspaper Forverts in Berlin . In 1925 he was one of the founders of the YIVO and headed its section for economic statistics in Berlin. Although he was a Lithuanian citizen, he was imprisoned for four days by the National Socialists on March 11, 1933 and then expelled. In 1938 he emigrated to the USA , in 1959 he went to Israel .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Yidisher Arbeter in Russia . Vilna, 1906
  • The Yidisher Arbeter in London . Vilna, 1907
  • Jewish population movement. 1926.
  • The resettlement and redeployment of the Jewish people over the past century. In: World Economic Archive. 30, 1929, pp. 123-155.
  • The economic fate of German Jewry. 1932.
  • The economic collapse of the Jews in Germany and Poland. Executive Committee for the World Jewish Congress, Paris 1936.
  • Dos Soviet Yudism. 1941.
  • Balance Sheet of Extermination. 1946 (calculates the number of Jewish victims of National Socialism at 5,978,000).
  • Crisis, Catastrophe and Survival: A Jewish Balance Sheet . New York, 1948

literature

  • Leschtschinsky (Lesczynski), Jakob , in: Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 711
  • Lestschinsky, Jakob , in: Joseph Walk : Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945. Edited by the Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. Saur, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 224
  • Maria Kühn-Ludewig: Yiddish books from Berlin (1918-1936): titles, people, publishers. Kirsch, Nümbrecht 2008, ISBN 978-3-933586-56-8 .
  • Gennady Estraikh: Jakob Lestschinsky: A Yiddishist Dreamer and Social Scientist. In: Science in Context. 2007, pp. 215-237.

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personal data
SURNAME Lestschinsky, Jakob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian-Israeli sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Horodyschtsche
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1966
Place of death Jerusalem