צבי פרילוצקי

Tsevi (Cwi) (Zeev) Prylucki (Hirsh-Sholem Prilutski) (1862-1942), journalist, newspaper editor and Zionist, born in Kremenets (Krzemieniec, in Polish), Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) into a wealthy family of merchants. He studied at studied at the universities of Kiev and Berlin, Germany. As one of the leaders of Hibbat Zion movement, during the 1880s and 1890s he was engaged in Zionist activities advocating for Jewish immigration to the Land of Israel. In 1898 he moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, and in 1905 settled in Warsaw, Poland. The same year he founded Der Veg (“The Way”), the first daily newspaper in Yiddish. All those years he continued to publish in various periodicals in Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian. In 1910, along with his son Noach Prylucki ,he founded and then served as editor-in-chief of the popular Yiddish daily Der Moment. Part of his memoirs about the Jewish journalistic scene in Poland during the early decades of 20th century survived in Ringelblum Archive from Warsaw Ghetto. Prylucki himself died in Warsaw Ghetto.