Wednesday 25 July 2018

MEYER PETER

MEYER PETER (b. 1896)
            He was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia.  For many years he worked as a private Yiddish-Hebrew tutor.  He was a leader in the area of abandoned and orphaned Jewish children due to war.  He published articles on pedagogy in: Unzer tsayt (Our time) in Kishinev (1920-1925); and the monthly journal Farn idishn kind (For the Jewish child) in Kishinev (1928), of which he also served as editor.  There has been no information about him since WWII.

Sources: Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (July 20, 1928); information from his relative Yoyel Vaynshteyn.
Khayim Leyb Fuks

  

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