ZALMEN
MEZAKH (b. 1873)
He was born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia, the son of Shiye Mezakh. In 1891 he made his way to England and in
1893 from there to the United States. He
settled in Philadelphia. He wrote pieces
for: Yudisher folksblat (Jewish
people’s newspaper) in St. Petersburg; Shulames
(Shulamit) in London (1894); and Folks-advokat
(People advocate) in New York. In
Philadelphia he edited the newspaper Di
folksshtime (The voice of the people) (1905-1907). In book form, among others, he published a
translation of a work by Herzberg Fränkel: Der
nayer bal-tshuve (The new penitent), “(A scene from Jewish life / In place
of a novel),” with a preface by Shiye Mezakh (Lublin: Avrom Feder, 1897), 16
pp.
Source:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2.
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