Novick, Paul

Born in the family of the store owner Fayvel-Chaim and Hai-Esther Novikov. He received a traditional Jewish religious education, first in a heder , then in a yeshiva (he studied with Rabbi H. Soloveichik . At the age of 16 he left the yeshiva , actively participated in the Jewish labor movement, then joined the Bund . From 1910 to 1912 he lived in Zurich . He emigrated to the United States in 1913. He served as secretary of the American Socialist Federation and the weekly publication Dine Welt, in which he began publishing articles starting in 1915. After the February Revolution in 1917, Novik returned to Russia, resuming his activities in the Bund Between 1919 and 1920, he was the editor of the Bund's Unzer Stim in Vilna and co-editor of the Vilner Toge publication (along with Z. Reisen ).

In October 1920 he returned to the United States , where he became one of the leaders of the Ikuf organization, since 1921 a member of the US Communist Party . In 1921, together with Moshe Olgin, he founded the communist newspaper Freight (later Morgen Freight). Novik served at various times as secretary of the Freigight editorial office, assistant editor, and after the death of M. Olgin in November 1939, he became editor-in-chief of the publication. In 1949, faced with the escalation of the anti-Semitic campaign in the USSR, on behalf of the US Communist Party, he indicted anti-Semitism against the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

• Novik, Paul - article from the Russian Jewish Encyclopedia