Early Life
Myer was born in Krychaw (Krichev), Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire (within the Pale of Settlement) now Belarus, the youngest of eleven children born to Ezekiel Baevski, Hebrew scholar, and his wife, Koona Dubrusha, née Shur.
He was educated at the Jewish Elementary School in Krichev, and later managed his mother's drapery business.
He migrated to Melbourne in August 1899 with very little money and little knowledge of English to join his elder brother, Elcon Myer (1875-1938) who had left Russia two years earlier.
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