MEYER RAYZ (b. 1891)
A
publisher and translator, he was born in Rozishtsh (Rozhyshche), Volhynia. He gained his secondary education in a senior
high school in Minsk, before proceeding to Liège. From 1918 he was a teacher and administrator
of Jewish schools in Warsaw, later a teacher of mathematics and physics in
Polish-Jewish and Hebrew middle schools and seminaries. He finally settled in Kovle (Kovel), where he
was a municipal councilor in city hall.
In 1927 he founded a publishing house, which published his translations
of: Wilhelm Ostwald, Di mil fun lebn,
fizikalish-khemishe yesoydes fun di lebns-protsesn
(The mill of life, physical-chemical foundations of life processes) (Warsaw,
1924), 135 pp.; W. Flatau, Higyene fun
der froy, a vegveyzer far froyen un
meydlekh, mit 20 bilder in teḳst (Women’s hygiene, a guide for women and
girls, with twenty images in the text [original: Weibliche Gesundheitspflege, ein Ratgeber und Wegweiser für Frauen und
Mädchen]), using the pen name “M. Gintsburg” (Warsaw, 1926), 172 pp. He also published: Roman Rolland, Bethoven (Beethoven), trans. Yankev
Kopl-Dua and Shmuel Vulman (Warsaw, 1924); and Max Erik, Ṿegn altyidishn roman un novele, fertsnter-zekhtsnter yorhundert (On
the Old Yiddish novel and novella, fourteenth-sixteenth century) (Warsaw,
1926). Together with Z. Leybovitsh, he
translated F. Moytner’s Borekh shpinoza
(Baruch Spinoza) and into
Hebrew: Tadeusz
Sierzputowski’s textbook, Aritmetik
(Arithmetic) (Warsaw, 1929), 158 pp.
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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