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- Biography
- Editions of the memoirs
- References
- External links
{{one source|date=September 2018}}Yechezkel Kotik (Yekheskel, Ezekiel; March 25, 1847 – August 13, 1921) was a Yiddish author. {{NOTOC }} Biography He was born in Kamyenyets (Kamenets, Kamieniec Litewski, Kamenets-Litovsk), 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 (one of the first ones in the city). He was a public man and philanthropist, and organized charities ("Achiezer", "Ezrath Holim" and others). He published brochures in Hebrew and Yiddish. His most famous work are his two-volume memoirs in Yiddish where he describes the life of a Jewish shtetl.[1] 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 (My memories), 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 (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology), 2002.
- Translation to Hebrew by David Assaf (Tel-Aviv, Vol. 1 - 1998, Vol.2 - 2005).
- Translation to Russian by Maya Ulanovskaya (Jerusalem, Vol. 1 - 2009, vol. 2 - 2012).
References 1. ^{{cite encyclopedia|title = Kotik, Yekheskl | encyclopedia = Encyclopaedia Judaica| url = https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/kotik-yekheskl}}
External links - {{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL5246814A/Yekhezkel_Kotik|title=Yekhezkel Kotik|website=Open Library|accessdate=2018-04-11}}
- {{cite web|url=http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/375420/|website=experimental.worldcat.org|title=Kotik, Yekhezkel, 1847-1921|accessdate=2018-04-11}}
- Kotik's book in translation to English: https://books.google.co.il/books/about/Journey_to_a_Nineteenth_century_Shtetl.html?id=knrfpytrp6YC
- Kotik's book in translation to Hebrew: http://benyehuda.org/kotik/
- Obituary (in Hebrew): http://jpress.org.il/Olive/APA/NLI_Heb/SharedView.Article.aspx?parm=9sGxiN7%2BVE0p0zrxNmMkX08rgRUqKSnvgoZ5sdRyZL2qhAxIQYxdeqbSWdBViRFtYw%3D%3D&mode=image&href=HZF%2f1921%2f08%2f15&page=4&rtl=true
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