BEN-TSIEN
VAYS (WEISS) (1888-March 27, 1950)
He was born in Pahost, near Minsk,
Byelorussia. He studied in religious
elementary school, synagogue study hall, and later in Russian high schools in Bobruisk
and Minsk. During the pogroms of
1905-1906, he fought in the ranks of the Labor Zionist self-defense groups
against the pogromists. Due to the
persecutions of the Tsarist authorities, he ran off to Finland and from there
to Israel, where from 1906 to 1910 he was a guard in the Jewish colonies. He moved to the United States in 1910, settled
in Boston, studied medicine there, and in 1916 graduated with his medical
degree. He practiced thereafter as a heart
specialist his entire life. He was also
active in Jewish community and cultural life in Boston. He published articles on medical issues,
educational problems, and Jewish community affairs in: Der idisher zhurnal (The Jewish journal) in Boston; Di idishe velt (The Jewish world) in
Philadelphia; Folksblat (People’s
newspaper) and Di idishe shtime (The
Jewish voice) in Kovno, Lithuania; and in such Hebrew periodicals as Hadoar (The mail), Hayehudi (The Jew), Bitsaron
(Fortress), Hayom (Today), Rama (Standard), Harofe (The doctor), and Haivri
(The Jew)—all in New York. He also
translated stories from Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and published them in
the English-language Jewish press. He
died in Boston
Sources:
Z. Brokhes, Yorbukh fun amopteyl (Annual from the American branch [of
YIVO]) 2 (1939), p. 242; M. M. Kantor, in Hadoar
(New York) (April 14, 1950); Dr. Sh. Kohen, in Harofe haivri (New York) 1 (1950), pp. 91-93.
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