Morris Winchevsky (Leopold Benzion Novokhovitch; Pseudonym: Ben Netz (Hebrew: 'Son of Hawk'; 1856–1932) was a prominent Jewish socialist leader in London and the United States in the late 19th century.
Born in Kovno, Poland in 1856, Winchevsky later moved to London where, already a well known socialist, he founded the Dos Poilishe Yidl (The Little Polish Jew), one of the first Yiddish daily socialist newspapers; and the Arbeter Fraynd, the first Yiddish-language anarchist newspaper. A "secular humanist" Jewish supplementary school in Toronto, Ontario was named after Winchevsky. The Morris Winchevsky School is now part of Toronto's Secular Jewish Community School.
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