MEYER
VOLANSKI (1891-August 28, 1958)
He was born in Selts (Syalyets), near Pruzhane (Prużana), Byelorussia.
He was director of the publishing house of Sejmik in Pruzhane when the
city was part of Poland. He was active
in the Bund, a municipal councilor on the city council, and a leader of Tsisho (Central
Jewish School Organization). In the
1930s he moved to Argentina, where he served as a member of the executive of
IKUF (Jewish Cultural Association [in Argentina]). He debuted in print with articles in the Pruzhane
weekly newspaper Pruzhaner lebn
(Pruzhane life), which later published his impressions of Argentina. He also published in Pruzhaner pinkes (Records of Pruzhane) several pieces about the city
and participated in the editorial commission of remembrance writings in these “records.” He also contributed to the leftist Yiddish
press in Buenos Aires. He died in Buenos
Aires.
Sources:
Pinkes pruzhane (Buenos Aires)
(1958), pp. 8, 18, 35; Folksshtime
(Warsaw) (October 1, 1958).
Yankev Kohen
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