M.
GAFNI (b. May 26, 1883)
Pen name of Moyshe Vaynshtok, he was
born in Jassy (Iași),
Romania. He received a Jewish and a
general education. In 1911 he graduated
as a medical doctor from
Jassy University and went on to practice in Galați
where he was also active in the Jewish labor and cultural movements. From 1905 he began publishing poetry,
stories, and feature pieces (also using the pen name Moyshke) in Hayoets (The advisor) in Bucharest and Likht (Light) in Jassy (1915), among
others. For the Romanian Jewish periodical
Hatikva (in Galați) poems by Peretz,
Bialik, Avrom Reyzen, and Yankev Groper; and from Romanian and Hungarian into
Yiddish, among others, “Der apostol” (The apostle) by Sándor Petőfi, as well as works by Lermontov and
Pushkin from Russian.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1.
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