Mordechai Tsanin
His father's occupation, practiced in nearby Siedlce, was that of writing petitions to the government on behalf of private citizens, while his mother worked in the family home.What he found there was published in the Forward, republished in every major Yiddish newspaper worldwide,[4] and finally collected in book form as Iber shteyn un shtok: a rayze iber hundert khorev gevorene kehiles in Poyln (Yiddish: איבער שטיין און שטאָק: אַ רײַזע איבער הונדערט חרוב געוואָרענע קהילות אין פּוילן, English: "Of Stones and Ruins: a journey through one hundred destroyed communities in Poland").The mission ended prematurely when it came to the attention of the Polish authorities, who expressed their displeasure with Tsanin's emphasis on the negative, compelling him to quit the country promptly.Though a big success in terms of circulation (daily runs of 20–30,000),[6] financial difficulties[6] led Tsanin, in 1960, to sell Lezte Neies to Pirsumim (Hebrew: פרסומים), a news conglomerate owned by the Mapai party.Among his other books, especially notable is the story of his long war-time flight through the USSR, the Far East, India, Egypt and finally to Israel, Grenezen bis zum Himmel (Yiddish: גרענעצן ביז צום הימל, English: "Borders all the way to the sky"), 1970.Tsanin evaded this stricture by establishing a second thrice-weekly newspaper, Heintike Naies (Yiddish: האינטיקע נאייעס, English: "Daily News") and arranged to have that and Lezte Neies published on alternate days.Lezte Neies was by then, as mentioned above, owned by a subsidiary of Mapai (the governing party at the time and long a leading force in the battle against Yiddish).Though Tsanin, still editor-in-chief, had much to complain about on the language-war front (for example the government's policy of discouraging Yiddish theater[6]) he consciously toned down his criticism in the interests of keeping his job.They found some support from the prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, who said about Tsanin, "I don't read that Lezte Neies paper, but I know its editor was once an anti-Zionist and I have no idea how he wound up in Israel.