Zeev Latsky

Zeev Latsky
Minister of Jewish Affairs
In office
April, 1918 – December, 1918
Prime Minister Vsevolod Holubovych
Preceded by Moishe Zilberfarb
Succeeded by Solomon Goldelman [note 1]
Personal details
Born unknown
Died 1940
Political party Folkspartei
Occupation statesman, writer, publisher

Ya'akov Ze'ev Latsky ("Bertoldi")[note 2] (? - 1940) was a Jewish Russian political and Yiddishist activist and briefly a Minister in the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918.

First a member of Herut[note 3] round 1901, he joined in December 1904 the new Zionist Socialist Workers Party to whose Central Committee he was elected in Odessa. He was closely associated with the theorist of Labour Zionism and leading advocate of Territorialist Zionism, Nachman Syrkin.[2]

After the 1917 Revolution, he joined the Folkspartei. In April 1918, he was appointed Minister for Jewish Affairs in the Ukrainian People's Republic, replacing Fareynikte Moishe Zilberfarb. He was succeeded briefly by Solomon Goldelman, then in January 1919 by Abraham Revutzky of Poale Zion.[3] [2] [4]

In October 1918 he was amongst the founders of an important Yiddish publishing house Folks-Farlag, initiated by intellectuals affiliated to the Folkspartei, like himself.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ Appointed acting minister of labor and acting secretary for national minorities in December 1918[1]
  2. ↑ also spelled Zeev Latski, also quoted as Ze'ew-Wolf Latzki-Bertholdi
  3. ↑ a socialist organization (Labor Zionism), cf. Ze'ew-Wolf Latzki-Bertholdi at the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia)

Sources

  1. ↑ Zhukovsky, Arkadii (1988). Goldelman, Solomon. Encyclopedia of Ukraine.
  2. 1 2 Frankel, Jonathan (1984). Prophecy and politics: socialism, nationalism, and the Russian Jews, 1862-1917. Cambridge University Press. p. 686. ISBN 978-0-521-26919-3.
  3. 1 2 Moss, Kenneth B. (2009). Jewish Renaissance in the Russian Revolution. Harvard University Press. p. 384. ISBN 978-0-674-03510-2.
  4. ↑ Ivan Katchanovski; Zenon E. Kohut; Bohdan Y. Nebesio; Myroslav Yurkevich (2013). Historical Dictionary of Ukraine. Historical Dictionaries of Europe. Scarecrow Press. p. 992. ISBN 9780810878471. Retrieved 2016-04-15.

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