| Personal data | |
|---|---|
| Surname | Melamed |
| Name | Tsal |
| Patronym | Aizikovich |
| Birth year | 1910 |
| Birth month | 3 |
| Birth day | 16 |
| Sex | M |
Melamed Tsal (Tzal) Aizikovich (16 March 1910 — ?) — satirical writer.
Tsal Melamed published his works in the magazines Repeynik (Dadzis), Krokodil, and in the Riga newspaper Soviet Youth. He authored the collections The Fail-Safe Boomerang, By the Way, Poets on a Diet, Bonus Tusks, Compressed Lines, Talents Without Admirers, and released several personal collections of humorous sketches, epigrams, and aphorisms. His best-known aphorism is: “The heart is a very fragile thing: it beats («Сердце — очень хрупкая вещь: оно бьется»).”