MEYER-VOLF
ZINGER (ca. 1840-ca. 1913)
He was a teacher in Tarashtshe
(Tarashcha), Kiev district, Ukraine. He
published in Hebrew: Mazal maḥkim
(Luck makes one smart), one hundred rhymed riddles for the young (Warsaw,
1879), 43 pp.; and Mishle krilov
(Krilov’s fables), 2 parts (Warsaw, 1885), 216 pp. and 236 pp., a second edition
appeared in 1892 in Warsaw. In Yiddish
he published: Der ziten lerer oder basni krilov
(The moral philosophy of Basni Krilov), “translated into pure zhargon [i.e., Yiddish] by Meyer-Zev
Zinger” (Berdichev, 1888), 80 pp. “A
poor translation,” wrote Zalmen Reyzen, “of these well-known fables.”
Sources:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1; M.
Osherovitsh, in Forverts (New York)
(April 20, 1945); Sh. Khurvits, “Fun folk tsu folk” (From people to people), Forverts (May 19, 1945).
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