Yechezkel Kotik


Yechezkel Kotik was a Yiddish author.

Biography

He was born in Kamyenyets, Russian Empire, modern day Belarus. He lived in Kiev, but after the 1881 pogroms he fled to Warsaw, where he founded a cheder and later opened a coffeehouse with a telephone. He was a public man and philanthropist, and organized charities. He published brochures in Hebrew and Yiddish. His most famous work is his memoirs in Yiddish where he describes the life of a Jewish shtetl. The memoirs were highly appreciated by Sholem Aleichem and I.L. Peretz; they were published in several editions and translated into several languages.

Editions of the memoirs