(1888-1941)
Lithuanian Yiddish editor and scholar, brother of Abraham Reisen. He was born in Koydenev, Belorussia. In 1915 he moved to Vilna, where he became a leader of the new Yiddish cultural movement. He edited the Yiddish daily Vilner tog (1919-39) and was a lecturer in Yiddish and Yiddish grammar at the Folk University and the Vilna Yiddish Teachers' Seminary. His writings include a grammar of Yiddish, a study of the origins of modern Yiddish literature, and a biographical and bibliographical encyclopaedia of Yiddish literature.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.