Saul Yanovsky

Saul Yanovsky (Yiddish: שאול יאנאווסקי) (April 18, 1864 – February 1, 1939) was an American anarchist and journalist.

He is best remembered as the editor of the Yiddish anarchist newspaper Fraye Arbeter Shtime, a role he held for twenty years.

Despite founding the newspaper, Yanovsky moved to London to take over as editor of Arbayter Fraynd, where he came into contact with famous anarchists Malatesta, Nettlau and Kropotkin.

The newspaper's growth strategy included promoting "constructive anarchism" by engaging trade unions, education and cooperatives.

[3]: 41–42 By 1919, Fraye Arbeter Shtime circulation dropped by half, and he was forced to resign as the paper's editor due to difference of opinions over the Russian revolution and World War I.

Immediately after leaving Fraye Arbeter Shtime, Yanovsky was recruited as an editor for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union's newly established newspaper Gerekhtigkayt (Justice) upon invitation by former wobbly and union-treasurer Morris Sigman.

[3]: 45 Like many anarchists, Yanovsky opposed US involvement in World War I, however with the downfall of the Russian czar, he argued that support for the Western power was preferable to rise of the German imperialists, a position shared by Kropotkin but incredibly unpopular with his readers.