MOYSHE-ARYE TSINOVITSH

MOYSHE-ARYE TSINOVITSH (b. 1907)

            He was born in Jedwabne, Lomzhe district, Poland.  He received ordination into the rabbinate.  He lived in Frankfurt, Germany.  There he organized “Mizrachi youth” and was its vice-chairman.  He later lived in Bialystok and published scholarly articles in Bialystok’s Unzer lebn (Our life).  In 1933 he made aliya to the land of Israel.  At first, he worked in agriculture there and later moved to Tel Aviv.  He gave lectures on history in the Jewish community.  He contributed articles and research work to Vilna’s Dos vort (The word) and later to Idishe tageblat (Jewish daily newspaper) in Warsaw and Haatid (The future) in Israel.  He served as a member of the editorial board for Pinkas lomza (Records of Lomzhe) and also contributed to the collection Arim veimahot beyisrael (Cities and mothers in Israel), edited by Y. L. Maimon.  He was last living in Israel.

Sources: Byalistoker leksikon (Bialystok handbook) (Bialystok, 1935); D. Tidhar, in Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav (Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 4 (Tel Aviv, 1950), p. 1899.

Yankev Kahan