Sunday 13 August 2017

YITSKHOK MOREYN (ICIK MOREIN)

YITSKHOK MOREYN (ICIK MOREIN) (b. 1903)
            He hailed from Riga, Latvia.  He was knowledgeable of languages, and between the two world wars he was a speaker for the press division of the Latvian foreign ministry.  He contributed to the Riga Yiddish daily newspaper Frimorgn (Morning) and was the author of a series of Yiddish-language guides to Latvia which the Latvian government published for Jewish tourists from other countries.  These books were: Letland, ir kultur, ekonomik, melukhe-ordenung, politik, gezelshaftlekhkeyt, kurortn (Latvia, its culture, economy, arrangement of state, politics, society, resorts) (Riga: Press division of the Latvian foreign ministry, 1929), 128 pp.; Ilustrirter firer durkh letland (Illustrated guide through Latvia) (Riga: Alef, 1932), 82 pp.; 15 yor letland, 1918-1933, grindung un antviklung fun der republic (Fifteen years of Latvia, 1918-1933, founding and development of the republic) (Riga: Alef, 1933), 80 pp.; Latvye un ire kurortn (Latvia and its resorts) (Riga: Livonya, 1933), 80 pp.; Dos naye letland, politishe, ekonomishe un kulturele oyflebung (The new Latvia, political, economic, and cultural revival) (Riga: Livonya, 1934), 88 pp.  His fate since WWII remains unknown.

Sources: M. Gerts, in Morgn-zhurnal (New York) (February 29, 1932); Gerts, 25 yor yidishe prese in letland (25 years of the Yiddish press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933); Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel Aviv, 1953); in the chronology in Literarishe bleter (Warsaw) (September 1, 1933); Yivo-bleter (Vilna) 6.1.
Zaynvl Diamant


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