PINES, MEYER ISSER

PINES, MEYER ISSER (1881 or 1882–1942?), leader of the Territorialist movement in his youth, Yiddish writer, and journalist. Born in Mogilev, Russia, Pines grew up in Rozinay, Grodno district. He received his doctorate for his dissertation, Histoire de la littérature judéo-allemande (Paris, 1911), which was translated into Yiddish (Warsaw, 1911), Russian, and German. israel zinberg and ber borochov stamped the work as dilettantish, a judgment held also by later scholars. Pines is presumed to have died in a Russian deportation camp sometime after 1942. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: LNYL, 7 (1968), 149–51. (Leonard Prager)