Leon Khazanovich

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Leon Chasanowich (born October 5, 1882 in Širvintos near Vilnius , Russian Empire ; died September 17, 1925 in Vulchovce , ČSR ) was a journalist and party functionary of the Zionist workers' party Poalei Zion .

Life

During the Russian Revolution of 1905 , Khazanovich was involved in the Poalei Zion, the Zionist workers' movement in the Russian Empire , and was imprisoned. In 1906 he fled to Austro-Hungarian Galicia , where he wrote for the Zionist newspaper Der jidisher Arbeiter . From 1909 he stayed as a party propagandist alternately in the USA, Canada, Argentina and Great Britain. In 1910 he criticized the conditions in the settlements of Jewish emigrants in Argentina established by the Jewish Colonization Association . From 1913 he was secretary of the Poalei in Vienna and pleaded for her admission to the Second International . When war broke out he was interned in Austria-Hungary until he managed to get back to the USA, where he was responsible for the publication of the party organ Der Yidisher Kemfer . With Ber Borochov he wrote a pamphlet in support of the establishment of the American Jewish Congress . Between 1917 and 1920 he was a Zionist delegate at various socialist congresses. The pogroms in Poland and the Ukraine after the end of the war were documented by him, also in order to initiate humanitarian aid actions by the Jews from Sweden and France. After the split in the Poalei, he withdrew from party work and in the 1920s worked for the Jewish educational organization World ORT , which had moved its headquarters to Berlin. In the ČSR he founded the regional association of ORT and stayed on their behalf with the rural Jewish population in the Slovak Carpathian Ukraine when he died of a heart attack.

Fonts (selection)

  • The yidisher khurbn in ukrayne: materials and documents . Berlin: Judea, 1920
  • with Leo Motzkin : The Jewish question of the present. Document Collection , Stockholm: Judea, 1919
  • The Polish Jewish pogroms in November and December 1918. Facts and documents , Stockholm: Judaea, 1919
  • with Ber Borochov: Di yudishe kongres-movement in amerike , Warsaw: Arbeyter-heym, 1917
  • The Jewish Proletariat in North America , in: Die Freistatt, May 15, 1913, pp. 98-104
  • The crisis of Jewish colonization in Argentina and the moral bankruptcy of the JCA administration . Stanislau: Verlag Bildung, 1910
  • References for German-language journal articles at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

literature

  • Mikhail Krutikov: From Kabbalah to class struggle: expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish literature in the life and work of Meir Wiener . Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. Review by Susanne Klingenstein in the FAZ, March 21, 2012
  • Lemma Chasanowich, Leon , Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Vol. 5, Col. 362f. Text also at jewish virtuallibrary .
  • Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1979, ISBN 3-262-01204-1 (reprint of the Czernowitz edition 1925), Volume 1, pp. 540f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vulchovce, today: Wilchiwzi (Tjatschiw), Ukraine, description of the place of Вілхівці in the Hungarian Wikipedia under hu: Irhóc
personal data
SURNAME Chasanowich, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shub, Katriel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zionist worker functionary
DATE OF BIRTH October 5, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Sirvintos
DATE OF DEATH September 17, 1925
Place of death Vilchivtsi (Tyachiv)