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Peter Wiernik

1865–1936

A major Yiddish journalist and translator, this Warsaw-born writer helped bring Jewish history and literature to immigrant readers in New York. He is especially remembered for editing influential Yiddish newspapers and for translating the Jewish Encyclopedia into Yiddish.

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History of the Jews in America

History of the Jews in America

by Peter Wiernik

About the author

Born in Warsaw in 1865, Peter Wiernik became one of the notable figures in Yiddish journalism in the United States. After immigrating to New York, he built a career as an editor and writer serving a growing Yiddish-speaking readership.

Wiernik worked with important Yiddish newspapers, including the Tog and the Jewish Morning Journal. He was also known for translation and reference work, most notably for producing a Yiddish version of the Jewish Encyclopedia, which helped make a wide range of historical and cultural knowledge more accessible to readers.

He died in 1936. Remembered as both a journalist and a cultural mediator, Wiernik played a part in shaping the intellectual life of Jewish immigrant communities in America.