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
Mayne zikhroynes, Warsaw 1912–13; Berlin 1922.- Translation to German: Jecheskel Kotik, Das Haus meiner Grosseltern; Aus Kotiks Lebenserinnerungen übersetzt von Leo Hirsch, Berlin: Schocken, 1936.
- Translation to English - Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik; edited with an introduction and notes by David Assaf; translated from the Yiddish by Margaret Birstein, Detroit: Wayne State University Press in cooperation with The Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, 2002.
- Translation to Hebrew by David Assaf.
- Translation to Russian by Maya Ulanovskaya.