Moshe Teiff, well-known Yiddish poet in the Soviet Union, died last Friday, at the age of 62, according to a dispatch from Moscow received here today. Funeral services for Mr. Teiff were held Sunday in Moscow, where his remains were interred in the Jewish cemetery.
Born in Minsk, Mr. Teiff joined the Yiddish faculty of White Russian Government University, in that city, in the early 1920’s. He had become known for his Yiddish poetry by that time. For years, he was a contributor to the “Emes,” the Moscow Yiddish newspaper, now defunct. In more recent years, he contributed to Sovietish Heimland, the Yiddish monthly published in Moscow.
In addition to his verse, he had also written novels and plays, and had translated into Yiddish many well-known classics. He lost his wife and daughter in the Minsk Ghetto during the war. In 1958, a book of his poems was published in Moscow in Russian translation.
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