YESHUA
ELYASHEVITSH
He was a contributor to a series of
Yiddish newspapers in Riga, Latvia, such as: Der veg (The way), later Unzer
veg (Our way), 1922-1923; Dos folk
(The people), a daily newspaper, 1922-1923; Frimorgn
(Morning), 1920s-1930s. He was also the
editor-publisher of Shakh-velt (Trade
world) (Riga, 1928). Further
biographical information remains unknown.
Sources:
M. Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in letland
(25 years of the Yiddish press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933); Yahadut latviya, sefer zikaron (Judaism in Latvia, a book of remembrance),
ed. B. Eliav, M. Boba, and A. Kremer (Tel Aviv, 1953), p. 155.
[Additional
information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon
fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New
York, 1986), col. 415.]
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