MOYSHE ALEKS (b. May 11, 1860)
Born in Shklov (Škłoŭ)
in Mahilyow (Mogilev) district, Byelorussia.
His father died when he was scarcely nine months old, and he was raised
in an orphanage. He studied in a yeshiva
in Bobryusk. He worked as a bookbinder
and as a tailor, and he labored in other trades as well. In Odessa he made the acquaintance of Yiddish
writers. In 1900 he came to the United
States. He lived in New York, later
settling in Washington, D.C. On his
seventieth, eightieth, and eighty-second birthdays, his Washington friends
published three books, which, despite being quite primitive, had a distinctive
historical value: Mayn lebns-geshikhte (My life history) (Washington,
1930); Lider fun mayn lebn (Poems from my life), which includes a kind
of collection dubbed by the author “der pinkes fun vashingtoner yidishn lebn”
(records of Jewish life in Washington) (Washington, 1940), 123 pp.; and Fertsik
yor in vashington, oder ver iz ver (Forty years in Washington, or who is
who?) (Washington, 1942), 126 pp.
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