SHMUEL
MAYZLISH (ca. 1895-May 30, 1948)
He came from Zhitomir, Ukraine. He received a traditional Jewish education
together with a secular one. He later studied
at Kiev University. In the early 1920s he
moved to Berlin, where he prepared a series of economics-statistical works for
YIVO in Vilna. For a time he worked as a
correspondent for Morgn-zhurnal
(Morning journal) in New York. Amid his
scholarly work, he placed in a YIVO publication such items as: “Di yidn in
terkay” (The Jews of Turkey) with tables and numbers, Yivo-bleter (Pages from YIVO) (Vilna) 1.5 (May 1931), pp. 474-75; “Mos
un vog fun di shul-kinder in poyln” (Height and weight of school children in
Poland), Yivo-bleter 2.4-5, pp. 444-48;
“Di hoypt-fondn far erets yisroel” (The main funds for the land of Israel), Ekonomishe shriftn (Economic writings)
(Vilna) 2 (1932), pp. 158-73; “Di voyn-farheltenishn in di groyse shtet un yidn”
(Residential ratios in large cities and Jews), Yivo-bleter 3.1 (1932), pp. 48-52; “Di shul-kinder in rige loyt
natsye un limudim-shprakh” (School children in Riga according to nationality
and language of instruction), Yivo-bleter
3.4-5, pp. 412-20; “Yidn in der shvayts” (Jews in Switzerland), Yivo-bleter 4.1 (1932), pp. 79-80; and “Arbetsloze
in rige” (Unemployment in Riga), Yivo-bleter
4.2 (1932), pp. 182-84; among others. After
Hitler’s rise to power in Germany (1933), he sent to foreign newspapers
correspondence pieces on the tortures suffered by Jews under Nazi rule and was
accordingly arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, but he was successful in fleeing
Germany. He then arrived in the land of
Israel, was a member of the Histadruth, and worked as a bureaucrat in
Jerusalem. He died in Jerusalem.
Sources:
Dr. A. Mukdoni, in Morgn-zhurnal (New
York) (December 2, 1932); Y. Kalinov, in Davar
(Tel Aviv) (May 20, 1949); Yivo-biblyografye
1925-1941 (YIVO bibliography, 1925-1941) (New York: YIVO, 1943); archive of
E. Tsherikover, YIVO; information from Mrs. Tsherikover in New York.
Zaynvl Diamant
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