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MAYERTSHIK (A. MIK) (1898-1942)
He was born in Lodz, Poland, into a
laboring family. He studied in religious
elementary school and synagogue study hall, and he later graduated from a
commercial school. From 1919 he was
publishing humorous sketches, puns, and aphorisms in Lodzer tageblat (Lodz daily newspaper), Idishe zhurnalist (Jewish journalist), and Nayer folksblat (New people’s newspaper)—in Lodz; and from time to
time in Moment (Moment) in Warsaw. In book form: Kalamburn, vertlekh un fir-shuredike gramen in proze (Puns,
sayings, and four-line verses in prose) (Lodz, 1928), 72 pp.; Sententsn (Sentences) (Lodz, 1934), 64
pp. He also published under such pseudonyms
as: A. Mik, A. Bis, and A. Tshikh. He was
confined in the Lodz ghetto and later in a German concentration camp where he
was murdered by the Nazis.
Source:
Information from A. Lederman and Herman Goldberg—in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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