Ziv Meyer (1892-1978)

Ziv (Siv) Meyer (real name and surname Nison Pups ) (1892, Navarin – 1978, Moscow) — publicist, public figure.

Meyer Ziv was born into a family of employees. During the First World War worked as an unskilled laborer in Riga and Vilna, where he participated in the revolutionary movement. Began his journalistic career in Vilna, publishing an essay about refugees from the western borderlands in a literary anthology. After the Revolution was elected deputy of the Vilna Soviet of Workers’ Deputies.

In 1920 he moved to Kaunas, where he served as editor of the Jewish weekly Naye Tsayt and was active in trade union work. Arrested, and after his release emigrated to Berlin, working for the organization Internatsionale Bukh (“International Book”).

From 1923 lived in Moscow, working for the editorial staff of the newspaper Der Emes, where he wrote articles, reviews, and feuilletons. During the Second World War served in the Red Army. From 1945 to 1948 worked at Eynikeyt, the newspaper of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. After its closure, he moved to Vilnius.

In the 1960s–70s Meyer Ziv published stories and articles in the journal Sovetish Heymland, in the Lithuanian press, and in the Warsaw Jewish newspaper Folks-Shtime.