URI KEYSH (ca. 1867-late winter 1937)
He was
an editor, thought to have come from Bessarabia. He was popular speaker on Zionism. Dr. Theodor Herzl gave him a subsidy to
purchase Yiddish writings, which Keysh used to publicize his Zionist newspaper Di rikhtige yudishe tsukunft (The proper
Jewish future) (Jassy [Iași]) (from October 25, 1907 with breaks until around 1916 and for a
short time in Bucharest). In the late
1920s, he revived the serial in Galats (Galați) with the title Di yudishe tsukunft (The Jewish future).[1] In 1925 he published the booklet Der goles (The diaspora) (Bucharest), 16
pp. Y. Shternberg noted: “In old Romania
[he] was a pioneer of Yiddish.” As a
public speaker, wrote Shloyme Bikl, he “for many years truly mastered the realm
of his adherents with his sermons.” He
died in Bucharest.
Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 3; Y. Shternberg, in Shoybn (Bucharest) (March-April 1937); Shloyme Bikl, in Tsukunft (New York) 2 (1956); Tog (New York) (January 8, 1966); Natan
Mark, Sifrut-yidish beromanya
(Yiddish literature in Romania) (Haifa, 1973), pp. 50, 53, 75; Volf Tambur, Yidish-prese in rumenye (The Yiddish press in Romania) (Bucharest: Kriteryon, 1977),
pp. 142-49.
Berl Cohen
[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers
(Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 483.]
[1] Another newspaper noted by Zalmen Reyzen, Di yudishe tsukunft (Iași, 1899),
had no connection to Keysh; the editor of that newspaper was Gershon Cohen.
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