MOYSHE TSUKER (MORRIS ZUCKER)

MOYSHE TSUKER (MORRIS ZUCKER) (February 13, 1892-1978)

            He was born in Kortshin (Korczyn), Krasne region, Galicia.  During WWI he served in the Austrian army.  He moved to the United States, and around 1940 began to publish in Yidishe shriftn (Yiddish writings) with the Jewish ethical society in New York.  He later contributed to: Di feder (The pen) (1953), Oyfsnay (Afresh), Zayn (Being), and Yidishe shriftn in New York; and Kheshbn (Accounting) in Los Angeles.  In book form, he published: Gut un frum (Good and pious), images and ethical incantations (New York, 1940?), 175 pp., in Hebrew translation by Moshe Brind as Yalkut amarot (Collection of sayings) (Brooklyn: Yerushalmi, 1952), 128 pp.

Sources: Tsukunft (New York) (July 1948); Avrom Reyzen, in Di feder (New York) (1949), p. 255; A. Gordin, in Di feder (1953), pp. 265-69; Meylekh Ravitsh, in Yorbukh (New York) (1949/1950); Sh. Slutski, Avrom reyzen-biblyografye (Avrom Reyzen’s bibliography) (New York, 1956), no. 5365; B. Boym, in Oysnay (New York) (autumn 1960).

Yankev Kahan