Mark Mendel (1900, Latvia – 1974) – Yiddish teacher, journalist. Brother of the renowned writer and philologist Yudl Mark. Activist for secular education in Yiddish.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Mendel Mark was director of the 4th Riga Jewish Primary School. As a representative of the People's Party, he was a member of the TsISHO (Centrale Yiddishe Shul-Organizatsie, Central School Organization). In 1925–33, he actively participated in the creation of the IVO (Yidisher Wasnshaftler Institute, a research institute for the study of Yiddish culture and language). He wrote for the publications Nae Vegn (Riga), Der Stral (Liepaja), and Yiddishe Sprach (New York). In 1938, he emigrated to Canada, and from there to the United States in 1945. He corresponded with renowned philologists Shmuel Niger, Max Weinreich, and Leibush Lehrer. In 1973, he published a detailed study in Yiddish on Jewish education in the Latvian SSR, “Secular Yiddish Education in Latvia” (Di Yidish-veltlekhe shul in Letland). His daughter, Miriam, is a professor of neurobiology at Cornell University (New York) and the founder (along with her husband) of the Mark-Zalpeter Yiddish Language Foundation.

Work:

Secular Yiddish Education in Latvia. New York; Tel Aviv, 1973. (In Yiddish).