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Moshe Katz (other)
Moshe Katz may refer to: * Moshe Katz (editor, born 1864) (1864–1941), American editor and activist * Moyshe Katz (writer, born 1885) (1885–1960), Russian–American writer, Zionist, and proponent of Yiddish culture * Morris Katz (1932–2010), American painter {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moshe Katz (editor, Born 1864)
Moshe Katz (1864–1941) was an American Jewish editor and activist. He was a central figure of New York City's Jewish anarchist circle at the turn of the century, participating with the Pioneers of Liberty and giving speeches. He briefly edited the Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper '' Fraye Arbeter Shtime'' in the 1890s and contributed to other Yiddish-language periodicals. Katz translated multiple anarchist classics into Yiddish: '' Conquest of Bread'', '' Moribund Society and Anarchy'', and '' Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist''. He grew towards Labor Zionism after the 1903 anti-Jewish Kishinev pogrom and eventually moved to Philadelphia to launch and edit a Yiddish daily periodical, ''Di Yiddishe velt'' (''The Jewish World''), for twenty years beginning in 1914. Katz brought his New York literary contacts to the Philadelphia paper with content that rivaled the Yiddish periodicals of New York. Biography Moshe Katz was born in 1864. He was a prominent member of New York C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moyshe Katz (writer, Born 1885)
Moyshe Katz (1885–1960) was a Russian–American writer, Zionist, and proponent of Yiddish culture. Life and career Moyshe Katz was born September 24, 1885, in Dokshytsy, Belorussia, and was raised in Mykolaiv (now southern Ukraine). Katz's studies included a religious elementary school, a private tutor, a Russian Jewish state school, and university. His father was a tailor active in the community and in Zionism, as was Katz. They were both arrested in 1903, the year Katz graduated high school, for participating in an illegal Zionist educational group. Katz joined the first Zionist socialist group in the region following the Kishinev pogrom. He was arrested several other times: for arming Jewish self-defense groups in Uman against the Black Hundreds, and for other revolutionary actions in Vilnius, Warsaw, and Minsk. His early articles were for a Russian Jewish weekly, beginning in 1904. The next year he began writing in Yiddish instead of Russian. He contributed to several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |