ARN
MARKON (b. 1896)
He was born in Dvinsk (Daugavpils), Latvia.
He was the nephew of Professor Y. D. Markovitsh. He received a Jewish and a general
education. For a time he studied in
Vilna, later in Riga. He wrote articles
on economic issues for the Riga-based, Russian-language daily newspaper Sevodnya (Today). In 1922 he switched to Yiddish and served as
a member of the editorial board of Frimorgn
(Morning) in Riga. He contributed to Idishe shtime (Jewish voice) in
Kovno. He also used such pen names as
Sanin and Ben-Mortkhe. He was killed
under Nazi rule.
Sources:
M. Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in letland
(25 years of the Yiddish press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933), p. 40; Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel
Aviv, 1953), see index; information from his relatives in New York and
Pittsburgh.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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