MEYER KOZHEN

MEYER KOZHEN (April 5, 1906-January 19, 1984)

            He was born in Vlotslavek (Włocławek).  In 1924 he graduated from the Hebrew high school in Włocławek.  He went on to receive a master’s degree in general history from Warsaw University.  He worked in the economics and statistics office of the Joint Distribution Committee in Warsaw.  During WWII he was in the Soviet Union, and afterward he returned to Warsaw.  From 1950 he was living in Israel.  He was editorial board secretary of Dos virtshaftlekhe lebn (The economic life) in Warsaw, in which he published using the pen name M. Karin.  He also published in: Literarishe bleter (Literary leaves) in Warsaw.  He was co-editor of Vlotslavek un umgegnt (Włocławek and environs) (Tel Aviv, 1967), 1031 pp., to which he contributed three pieces of research on the history of Jews in the city.  From a Hebrew manuscript, he translated D. Davidovitsh’s Shuln in poyln (Schools in Poland) (Buenos Aires, 1961), 536 pp.  He also wrote in Hebrew.  He died in Tel Aviv.

Ruvn Goldberg

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 471.]