Nisn Pups
Soviet Lithuanian-Jewish revolutionary, journalist and trade unionist
Nisn Pups (Lithuanian: Nisonas Pupsas, Russian: Нисон Пупс Yiddish: ניסן פּופּס; 1892 - 1978) was a Soviet Lithuanian-Jewish revolutionary, journalist, publicist and trade unionist. He was known by the party name Meyer Ziv (Russian: Меер Зив, Meer Ziv) from 1921 onwards. In some periods he used combinations of his birth name and party name, going by Meir Pups (Lithuanian: Mejeris Pupsas, Polish: Majer Gerszon Pups).
Life
Nisn Pups was born in 1892 in the small Lithuanian town of Nevarėnai. His father Nochemas Pupsas (Nachim Pups) owned a colonial goods store. His elder brother Isroelis Leibas Pupsas (Isroel Leiba Pups) became a Hebrew-language writer.
During the period of the First World War, he worked as a manual labourer in Riga and Vilna (Vilnius). In Vilna he became involved in journalistic and literary activities, and in 1915 he published a literary anthology on the inhabitants in the Western border region. At the age of 25, Pups was elected as the chairman of the Vilna Professional Union of Trade Employees. He would also become a member of the Central Council of Vilna Trade Unions.
“Nisn Pups” enters the record as soviet Lithuanian-Jewish revolutionary, journalist and trade unionist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nisn, Pups and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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