MOYSHE
HERTSBAKH (b. 1896)
He was born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia.
He received a Jewish and a general education. He graduated from a Russian high school and
studied at the University of Riga. He
was chairman of the Left Labor Zionist Party in Latvia. He was also active in Jewish school
curricula. He contributed to the Riga
Yiddish daily newspapers Dos folk
(The people) and Frimorgn (Morning);
and to Arbeter tsaytung (Workers’
newspaper) in Warsaw; and other serials as well. In 1937 he moved to Russia, and since that
point in time there has been no further information known about him. His younger brother, SHIMEN HERTSBAKH, was a reporter
for Dos folk (1920-1927)—his fate is
also unknown.
Sources:
M. Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in letland
(25 years of the Yiddish press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933), pp. 38, 40; Y. Meir, in
Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia)
(Tel Aviv, 1953), pp. 123, 153, 155, 156.
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