Mordechai Hillel Kroshnitz

Mordechai Hillel Kroshnitz (Baranowice, Belarus 1915 – Nahariya, Israel 1998) was a Yiddish writer, editor, essayist and journalist.

During World War II, he escaped from the Nazis first to Lubcha, and then to the home front of U.S.S.R until he reached Samarkand – Uzbekistan.

During the War of Independence was active in organizing both illegal immigration to Palestine, and ‘Gachal’ – overseas volunteers for the Israeli Defense Forces.

Edited and published books and newspapers in Yiddish, including ‘Bafrayung’ – the labor party's journal of the survivors in Germany, and the assembly ‘Haifa’ (Yearbook for literature and art).

Was from the founders of the member of the Hebrew Writers Association in Israel Wrote four books in Yiddish: Doyres; Erd; Eygns; Natur un Mentsh.