MEYER
LITVAK (1861-1932)
He was born in Kremenits,
Volhynia. He graduated from a Russian
public school and a Russian high school, and later he studied medicine. During the Russo-Japanese War, he was a
military doctor at the front, in Harbin, and in Khabarovsk, and he received the
rank of general. He was again mobilized as
a military doctor during WWI. He was a
pioneer in the Zionist movement in his home city, and for many years he was
chairman of Volhynia Zionist organization, a member of the executive of TOZ (Towarzystwo
Ochrony Zdrowia [Society for the protection of health]), and chair of the
doctors’ association of Kremenits. He
published articles in the weekly newspapers: Vohliner leben (Volhynia life), Voliner
shtime (Voice of Volhynia), and Kremenitser
leben (Kremenits life). In 1928 he
visited the United States on a community assignment. He died in Kremenits.
Sources:
Obituary in Voliner shtime (Rovne) 15
(1932); M. Sambirer, in Pinkes kremenits
(Records of Kremenits) (Tel Aviv, 1953), pp. 360-62.
Benyomen Elis
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