Emanuel Katz (1915-1978)
He was a member of the Lehi, a publicist, journalist, editor,
translator and researcher.
Emanuel Katz was born in Vilnius to a national Zionist family in
1915. From his youth he excelled in knowledge, in which he used publicist
writing. He also translated poetry and prose.
After graduating from high school, as an officer in the Betar
Galilee headquarters of Betar, he immigrated to Eretz Israel as a student at
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Katz went to work in the Hebrew press, while continuing his
activities in the established national movement. Among his political essays,
which include many articles, is also the booklet "The Empire Sinking Judah
Rises" which was published by Lehi. He also wrote the song
"Legend" written after the death of Lehi commander Yair, and in his
memory.
Edited and translated many books. He founded and edited
"Lapid", a national and working youth magazine, and left in writing
two extensive studies on the subject of Judaica and on the Jewry of Vilna, his
hometown. As a journalist he worked for various newspapers, The Observer,
Zamanim, HaBeker, and especially for Herut. At the end of his life he worked
for the Yiddish newspaper "Latest News", was a member of the
editorial board and took part in the ideological newspaper "Sulam".
In the elections to the Seventh Knesset, he was placed third on Israel Eldad's
list, "List for the Land of Israel," but the list did not pass the
blocking percentage.
He wrote the Hebrew words of a number of Spanish romances in a
booklet he published together with Yitzhak Levy. The romances are "It's
the Disappearance," "The Little Blush," "Bat Galim,"
"Shadow-No-Shadow," "Three Sisters," "To the
Window," "Yael," "Wish Him," "Silona."