SH. GULKO

SH. GULKO

            He was born in Kiev.  He was a Soviet Jewish pedagogue, a teacher and author of textbooks.  He served on the editorial board of the children’s magazine Oktraberl (Little October), which initially appeared in print around 1932, and of Almanakh, fun yidishe sovetishe shrayber tsum alfarbandishn shrayber-tsuzamenfor (Almanac, from Soviet Jewish writers to the all-Soviet conference of writers) (Kharkov, 1934), 295 pp.  He authored the textbooks: Far a politekhnisher shul (For a polytechnical school) (Kharkov, 1930), 22 pp.; Literatur, literarishe materyaln…farn 7tn lernyor (Literature, literary material for the seventh school year) (Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1931), 336 pp.; Literarishe materyaln tsum lernbukh af literatur (Literary materials for a literature textbook), “for the fifth school year,” 3 vols. (Kharkov-Kiev, 1932), 262 pp.; Literarishe materyaln tsum bukh af literatur farn 6tn lernyor (Literary material for the book in literature for the sixth school year) (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian state publishers for national minorities, 1932), 186 pp.; Leyenbukh (Reader) (Kharkov-Kiev, 1933), 272 pp.; Leyenbukh far shuln fun dervaksene, ershte shtufe (Reader for schools for adults, first level), with L. Goldin (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian state publishers for national minorities, 1933), 113 pp.; Leyenbukh farn 2tn lernyor (Reader for the second school year), with L. Goldin (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian state publishers for national minorities, 1933), 117 pp.; Arbkorye (Worker correspondence), anthology, “ten years of the worker correspondents’ movement among the Kiev Jewish laborers” (Kiev, 1933), 76 pp.; Leyenbukh farn tsveytn klas (Reader for the second class), enlarged edition with L. Kvitko (Kharkov-Kiev, 1934), 140 pp.  In the volume Arbkorye, which has not reached us, he wrote up his memoirs which probably includes autobiographical details.  His writing activities ended between 1934 and 1935.  Subsequent information remains unknown.

[Additional information from: Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 153.]