YISROEL-MOYSHE FISHLEDER (b. October 3, 1897)
He was
born in Keydan (Kėdainiai), Kovno district, Lithuania. He studied in religious elementary school and
in yeshivas in Vilna and Slobodka. In
1913 he completed the pedagogical course of study in Grodno and became a
teacher. During WWI he turned up in
Russia and until 1916 was a teacher in a Talmud-Torah in Starodub. Later, until the end of 1918, he worked as a teacher in Tsaritsyn (now Volgograd), and from there he came to
Poland where he continued his studies and received ordination into the
rabbinate. He lived in Cuba,
1923-1943. He was president of the
Jewish community and a teacher in Yiddish and Hebrew schools in Havana. From late 1943 he was in Mexico. He was spiritual leader of the Ashkenazi
community and rabbi of the school Nidḥe Yisrael (The dispersed of Israel),
while simultaneously teaching at the Yavne school. He began his literary work with articles on
education and ethnic issues in Havaner
lebn (Havana life) in 1933, and until 1943 he was a regular contributor to
this serial. From 1944 he was a standing
contributor to Der veg (The way) in Mexico
City. In book form in Hebrew: Mivtsar yisroel (The might of Israel),
essays (Mexico City, 1959), 489 pp., for which he received the Tsvi Kessel
Prize; and in Yiddish, Dos likht fun visn
(The light of knowledge), essays (Mexico City, 1965), 359 pp. He was last living in Mexico City.
Sources: Yoysef Koler, in Der veg (Mexico City) (July 1965); Even Tov, in Di shtime (Mexico City) (July 5, 1965);
Khayim Lazdeyski, in Keneder odler
(Montreal) (July 18, 1965); Yefim Yeshurin, 100
yor moderne yidishe literatur, biblyografisher tsushteyer (100 years of
modern Yiddish literature, bibliographical contribution) (New York, 1966), p.
479.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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