Personal archives of Pesakh Marek, Jewish public figure, folklorist and historian (Fond 9533, Opis1)
Pyotr (Pesakh) Marek (1862-1920) was born in Sheduva, Lithuania. He recived a traditional Jewish education as well as a secular one. During his studies at the law faculty of Moscow University, along with future prominent Zionist leaders such as Chlenov and Usyhskin, he took active part in the Bnei Zion Society. In 1888 Marek published his first research paper on the history of Jewish printing in Russia. ...



