AVROM-MEYER
TEYTS (b. 1875)
He was born in Riga and was a
cofounder of the association Tsien
(Zion) in 1901. He began writing articles
for Haynt (Today) in Warsaw in 1910,
later publishing in such Riga-based Yiddish newspapers as: Letste nayes (Latest news), Dos
folk (The people), and Frimorgn
(Morning)—including a series entitled “Epizodn fun der yidisher fargangenheyt
in rige” (Episodes from the Jewish past in Riga)—and Di shul- un khazonim-velt (The school and cantors’ world) in Warsaw
(1938). After 1940 there has been no
information about him available.
Sources:
Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo
(Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928); M.
Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in letland (25 years of the Yiddish
press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933); Al. Atingn and M. Buba, in Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel Aviv, 1953), see index; Entsiklopedya she hatsiyonut hadatit
(Encyclopedia of religious Zionism), vol. 2 (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 418.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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