Tsentsiper Peysakh (24. 03. 1903, Riga — ?) — teacher, manager. He was born into a family of workers. He completed the Private Russian Gymnasium in Tartu in 1924, and immediately enrolled at the economics division of the University of Tartu, which he completed in 1929 without defending a thesis.
During his studies, in the 1926/1927 academic year, he taught at a Jewish school in Tartu. After graduating from the university, from 1929 to 1931 he held the position of department head at the Riga Commercial Bank. He taught from autumn 1931 until October 1933 at the Ludza Municipal Commercial School as acting teacher of geography, world history, and so-called commercial subjects (bookkeeping, principles of law, principles of cooperation, economics). He worked in Daugavpils at the Jewish Savings and Loan Association. From 1934 to 1938 he worked in Liepāja at the “Jupiter” joint-stock company as head of the sales department. In 1938 he returned to Riga, where he took the position of manager at the firm “B. Westermann.” In October 1940, according to the records of the Teachers' Census Commission of the Ministry of Education, he received permission to work in a school. Wife — Leya Tsentsiper (née Sloboda, 1906 —?), son Aron (b. 1937).

S. Kovalchuk