Saul Yanovsky

A portrait of Saul Yanovsky, taken in New York City c. 1910

Saul Yanovsky (Yiddish: שאול יאנאווסקי) (April 18, 1864 – February 1, 1939) was an American anarchist and journalist.

He is best remembered as the editor of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime, a role he held for twenty years.[1][2][3] He contributed to other newspapers including the London anarchist newspaper Arbayter Fraynd and socialist competitor Forverts, He was a member of the Jewish-anarchist group Pioneers of Liberty.[4]

Yanovsky was one of the most influential editors in Yiddish journalism. Sociologist Robert E. Park remarked that writing for Yanovsky was the equivalent of a Yiddish literary passport. However, if Yanovsky thought a submission was subpar, the submission risked being subjected to his biting sarcasm and literary wrath in his dedicated section in the Fraye Arbeter Shtime.[3]: 43 

  1. ^ Avrich, Paul (1988). Anarchist Portraits. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 191. ISBN 0-691-00609-1.
  2. ^ Kenyon Zimmer (June 30, 2015). Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. University of Illinois Press. pp. 35–. ISBN 978-0-252-09743-0.
  3. ^ a b Zimmer, Kenyon (2017). "Saul Yanovsky and Yiddish Anarchism on the Lower East Side". In Goyens, Tom (ed.). Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 33–53. ISBN 978-0-252-08254-2.
  4. ^ Paul Avrich (2005). Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America. AK Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-904859-27-7.