Yechezkel Kotik

Yechezkel Kotik (Yekheskel, Ezekiel; March 25, 1847 – August 13, 1921) was a Yiddish author.

He was born in Kamyenyets (Kamenets, Kamieniec Litewski, Kamenets-Litovsk), Russian Empire, modern day Belarus.

He lived in Kiev, but after the 1881 pogroms he fled to Warsaw, where he founded a cheder and later opened a coffeehouse with a telephone (one of the first ones in the city).

He was a public man and philanthropist, and organized charities ("Achiezer", "Ezrath Holim" and others).

His most famous work is his memoirs in Yiddish (2 vols.)