MOYSHE
LEYZEROVITSH (December 1, 1888-1943)
The father of Yoysef Leyzerovitsh
and brother of Yankev Leyzerovitsh, he was born in Brist (Brest), Lithuania,
where his father, Leyzer Leyzerovitsh, was an itinerant preacher. In his youth he joined the Zionist movement, and
later stood with the revolutionaries.
After the split in the revolutionary camp over the issue of belonging to
the Zionist world movement, he switched to the “party for a Jewish state.” He was actively involved in the movement in
Warsaw and was a delegate to domestic and international Zionist and general
conferences. He wrote a great deal for
the general Zionist and Revisionist press and for Haynt (Today) in Warsaw, where he was later one of the most
prominent co-editors. He was active in
the administrative authorities of the association of Jewish writers and
journalists at 13 Tłomackie St.
During the years of WWII, when the Nazis occupied Warsaw and confined
the Jews to the ghetto, Leyzerovitsh remained involved in community cultural
affairs as a member of the aid group for Jewish writers, and he worked in the
writers’ kitchen, helped prepare children’s performances, and attempted to save
cultural activists on the Aryan side of the city. He participated in the last ghetto seder in
1943 and died in the ghetto.
Sources:
Z. Segalovitsh, Tlomatske 13, fun farbrentn nekhtn (13 Tłomackie
St., of scorched yesterdays) (Buenos Aires, 1946), p. 256; Yidishe shriftn (Yiddish writings), anthology (Lodz, 1946); Yonas
Turkov, Azoy iz es geven (That’s how it was) (Buenos Aires, 1948), see
index; Turkov, In kamf farn lebn
(In a struggle for life) (Buenos Aires, 1949), p. 32; B. Mark, Di umgekumene shrayber fun di getos un lagern (Murdered
writers from the ghettos and camps) (Warsaw, 1954), p. 46; Brisk delita (Brisk/Brest, Lithuania) anthology (Jerusalem-Tel
Aviv, 1955), see index; B. Kutsher, Geven
amol varshe (As Warsaw once was) (Paris, 1955), see index; M. Ginzburg, in Keneder odler (Montreal) (May 9, 1955).
Yankev Kahan
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