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- KATZ. COL.
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- English
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Brief biography of Itzhak Katzenelson
Poet, author, playwright, teacher, and educator, Itzhak-Yechiel Katzenelson was born in 1885 or 1886 in Karelicze, Minsk district, Belorussia.
In 1887 his family relocated to Lodz. Katzenelson’s literary, dramatic, and pedagogical talents were recognized at an early age, he wrote plays, poems, and stories for children. In Lodz in 1912, he founded the “Hebrew Stage” theatre.
Yitzhak katzenelson biography of mahatma
He opened and directed a network of secular Hebrew day schools for kindergarten through high school. A member of the Dror Zionist movement, he was active in its “Borochov” pioneering training commune and was a guiding force in its social and cultural life.
Katzenelson visited Mandate Palestine in 1924 and 1934. Three months after Lodz was conquered, Itzhak Katzenelson left for Warsaw, and soon was joined there by his wife and their thre