Teyts, Avrom-Meyer
1875–
He was born in Riga and was a cofounder of the association Tsien (Zion) in 1901.
He began writing articles for Haynt (Today) in Warsaw in 1910, later publishing in such Riga-based Yiddish newspapers as: Letste Nayes (Latest News), Dos Folk (The People), and Frimorgn (Morning)—including a series entitled “Epizodn fun der Yidisher Fargangenheyt in Rige” (Episodes from the Jewish Past in Riga)—and Di Shul- un Khazonim-Velt (The School and Cantors’ World) in Warsaw (1938).
After 1940 there has been no information about him available.
Sources: Biblyografishe Yorbikher fun YIVO (Bibliographic Yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928); M. Gerts, 25 Yor Yidishe Prese in Letland (25 Years of the Yiddish Press in Latvia) (Riga, 1933); Al. Atingn and M. Buba, in Yahadut latviya (Judaism in Latvia) (Tel Aviv, 1953), see index; Entsiklopedya she hatsiyonut hadatit (Encyclopedia of Religious Zionism), vol. 2 (Jerusalem, 1960), p. 418.