MOYSHE-NAKHMEN VEYMAN

MOYSHE-NAKHMEN VEYMAN (b. September 26, 1880)

            He was born in Vitebsk, Byelorussia.  He studied in a public school, later moving to the United States where he studied and later practiced as a dentist in Philadelphia.  He published poetry and articles in the New York Yiddish press and in Philadelphia publications: Literarisher shtral (Literary beam), published 1899-1906; Idisher kemfer (Jewish fighter), 1906-1907; Filadelfyer shtodt-tsaytung (Philadelphia city newspaper), 1894 (83 issues appeared); Der shtern (The star), 1906-1907; Filadelfyer morgn-tsaytung (Philadelphia morning newspaper), the first Yiddish daily in Philadelphia (appearing from January 18 to April 7, 1907); Filadelfyer prese (Philadelphia press), 1913 (7 numbers appeared); Filadelfya ameriken (Philadelphia American), 1908-1909; Filadelfyer idisher herald (Philadelphia Jewish herald), 1913; Di idishe velt (The Jewish world), a Philadelphia daily newspaper (1914).  He also wrote for the Labor Zionist organ in Philadelphia, Der nayer orient (The new Orient).

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; D. B. Tirkel, “Biblyografye fun der yidisher prese in filadelfye” (Bibliography of the Yiddish press in Philadelphia), Pinkes (American division of YIVO) (New York, 1928); M. Fridman, Fuftsig yor geshikhte fun idishn lebn in filadelfya (Fifty years of Jewish life in Philadelphia) (Philadelphia, 1934).

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