M. Veinger

Mordkhe Veinger (Veynger) was born in Poltava and studied in Prague and at Warsaw University. While still a student, Veinger published studies of Yiddish syntax. From 1914 to 1916, Veinger served in the army and after 1918 worked for the Soviet government. Then he lived in Central Asia, including in Tashkent (where he was a member of the Bund and then the Soviet Communist Party, and a lecturer and administrator at the Central Asian Communist University). In 1923, he settled in Minsk, teaching Yiddish and Germanic philology at the Belorussian State University, and playing a leading role in the Jewish studies section of the Institute for Belorussian Culture. He published widely, and initiated a Yiddish dictionary and an atlas of the Yiddish language in the Soviet Union.