Monday 12 November 2018

MOYSHE FISHER


MOYSHE FISHER (b. April 20, 1905)
            He was born in Bershad, Podolia, Ukraine.  He studied in religious elementary school, yeshiva, and in a Yiddish-Hebrew school.  In 1920 he fled from Russia and lived for four years in Bessarabia.  In 1924 he came to the United States, and in 1929 he graduated from the Jewish teachers’ seminary in New York.  In 1926 he began writing for the provincial press in the States and Canada, as well as in Tog (Day) in New York.  He was assistant to the secretary general of the Jewish National Labor Alliance and managing editor of Farband-yedies (Alliance news).  He was last living in New York.

Source: Tog-morgn-zhurnal (New York) (December 27, 1964; September 19, 1965).
Yankev Kahan


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