Wednesday 26 July 2017

IZAK MOSKOVITSH

IZAK MOSKOVITSH (b. ca. 1892)
            He was born in Jassy (Iași), Romania.  In 1909 he joined the Jewish socialist movement.  He served as editor of Der veker (The alarm) in Jassy (1915-1916).  He contributed to the Bundist-oriented press in Romania, such as: Dos naye lebn (The new life), Di naye tsaytung (The new newspaper), Der shtral (The beam [of light]), and Folkstsaytung (People’s newspaper)—in Czernowitz.  He was last living in the state of Israel

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Psevdonimen in der yidisher literatur (Pseudonyms in Yiddish literature) (Vilna, 1939); information from Dr. Y. Kisman in New York; Shloyme Bikl, Eseyen fun yidishn troyer (Essays of Jewish sorrow) (New York, 1948), pp. 141-42.
Khayim Leyb Fuks


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