Cherfas Zelik (21.02.1911, Nizhny Novgorod) — teacher. Studied at the private Jewish primary school of G. Bintz. In 1929, graduated from the private Jewish secondary school of I. Raukhvarger and immediately enrolled at the medical faculty of the University of Latvia, graduating in 1935 with a physician's diploma.
From 1933, he began teaching Hebrew and the Torah at the Riga Jewish craft school of the Jewish Education Society in Latvia, and at the private Jewish secondary and primary school of I. Raukhvarger.

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archive, F. 1632, desc. 1, file 3954.