MORTKHE-MEYER BERK
He was born in Piaski, Poland, near to Lublin, into a
Hassidic family. He married while still
quite young, and he departed for the United States. Two years later, he returned and settled in
Bialystok where for the next forty years he taught Hebrew. He chaired the teachers’ organization. He published a series of short stories and
sketches in Hamelits (The advocate) and Hatsfira (The siren) in
Hebrew, and in Dos naye lebn (The new life) in Yiddish. He was for many years a member of a literary
circle and many times a member of its board.
He later worked as a teacher in a high school in Lukov. We have no subsequent information.
Source:
Byalistoker leksikon (Handbook of Bialystok) (1935), p. 196.
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