LEYZER
VAYS (1903-November 10, 1930)
He was born in Tshenstokhov (Częstochowa), Poland, into a poor working family. In his youth he worked as a shoemaker, later
as a locksmith. At the same time he was
studying, graduated from a high school, and went on to study law at the Universities
of Warsaw, Lemberg, and Cracow from which he received his law degree. He was an active youth leader in the left
Labor Zionist party in Częstochowa and Cracow. In the last years of his life, he was active
as a lawyer in Cracow, chairman of the local Y. L. Perets Library and secretary
of the library center of the Labor Zionists in Poland. In 1926 he led a course in Jewish
librarianship in Warsaw. He was the
author of Hantbukh far biblyotekn
(Handbook for libraries) (Warsaw, 1929), 92 pp.
He died in Cracow.
Sources:
Fraye yugnt (Warsaw) (December 1930);
Y. Kener, Tshenstokhover yidn (The
Jews of Częstochowa) (New York, 1947), pp. 148-49.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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