Leivick Hodes

Leivick Hodes (born in 1892 in Lepel, Vitebsk province, died in 1957 in New York) was a Polish Bundist activist. He was an active revolutionary Bundist organizer during the 1917 revolution and following period, playing a leading role in Smolensk. Hodes was a lifelong teacher and much of his activism was in the realm of education: He was one of the founders and theorists of SKIF, the Bundist youth movement, and served on the central committee of TSYSHO, the Central Jewish School Organization in Poland. He was an active proponent of socialist scouting and was a prolific journalist and editor for the Bundist press in Vilna, Warsaw, and later New York. Hodes escaped Poland in 1939 and spent the rest of his life in New York, often suffering from ill health but continuing his political work through his writing.