Litakov, Moses

(1875-1938)

   Russian Yiddish writer. He was born in Cherkassy in the Ukraine. He wrote in Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish on social and literary issues. After the revolution of 1905 he became a member of the central committee of the territorialist Socialist-Zionist Party. He edited periodicals in Vilna, and after 1917 he contributed to Yiddish journals in Kiev. In 1919 he joined the communist party and became a leader of Moscow's Yevsektzia. From 1924 he edited Ernes, the Yiddish organ of the Communist party. He was arrested in the Stalinist purges of 1937 and died in prison.