KAPLAN, PESAḤ

KAPLAN, PESAḤ
KAPLAN, PESAḤ (1870–1943), Hebrew and Yiddish journalist. Born in Stawiski, Poland, Kaplan lived in Bialystok from 1888 and was active in Zionist circles, writing regularly in the Hebrew press. He also published a series of popular works and children's books in Hebrew. Later he moved away from Zionism, wrote in Yiddish, and served as journalist and editor of Yiddish periodicals. He was a member of the judenrat in the Bialystok ghetto and perished in the Holocaust. Two diaries which he kept in the ghetto (on the Bialystok Judenrat, and on the expulsion of the Jews of Bialystok) are preserved in the archives of yad vashem in Jerusalem. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kressel, Leksikon, 2 (1967), 288f. (Getzel Kressel)

Encyclopedia Judaica. 1971.

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