MENAKHEM RIGER (b. September 18, 1914)
He was
born in Riga. After WWII he was in
Italy. In 1948 he came to Israel and
lived in Ramla. He published poems in
the Roman journal Baderekh (On the
road), edited by B. Cohen; In gang (In
progress); Farn folk (For the people),
Tsukunft (Future), and Tog-morgn-zhurnal (Day-morning journal)
in New York; and Letste nayes (Latest
news) and Yidishe tsaytung (Jewish
newspaper) in Tel Aviv. His work
appeared as well in Shmuel Niger’s Kidesh
hashem, a zamlung geklibene, oft gekritste barikhtn, briv, khronikes, tsavoes,
oyfshriftn, legendes, lider, dertseylungen, dramatishe stsenes, eseyen, vos
moln oys mesires-nefesh in undzere un oykh in frierdike tsaytn
(Sanctification of the name, an anthology selected, often abridged report,
letters, chronicles, wills, inscriptions, legends, poems, stories, dramatic
scenes, essays, which depict martyrdom in our present and earlier times) (New
York: Tsiko, 1948); and Shmerke Katsherginski, Dos
gezang fun vilner geto (The song
of the Vilna ghetto) (Paris, 1947).
Source: Yeshurin archive, YIVO (New York).
Ruvn Goldberg
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