Nisn Pups

Nisn Pups (, ; 1892 - 1978) was a Soviet Lithuanian-Jewish revolutionary, journalist, publicist and trade unionist. He was known by the party name Meyer Ziv (, Meer Ziv

During the period of the First World War, he worked as a manual labourer in Riga and Vilna (Vilnius). When the Vilna Soviet of Workers Deputies was formed in December 1918, Pups was elected as the second secretary of the Presidium of the Soviet. In August 1921 Pups joined the Communist Party of Lithuania. He served on the editorial board of the 1939-1941 newspaper Der Bialistoker Shtern ('The Bialystok Star'). Between 1945 and 1948 he worked at the editorial office of the newspaper Eynigkayt ('Unity'), the organ of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. he moved back to Vilnius. Meyer Ziv/Nisn Pups died in Vilnius in 1978, at the age of 86. He was survived by his daughter , a historian on Jewish history.