YOYSEF-DOVID-ZHELUDOK DEREVYANSKI

YOYSEF-DOVID-ZHELUDOK DEREVYANSKI (d. 1941)

            His was a teacher of history in the Epshteyn High School in Vilna.  Over the years 1935-1936, he was a research student at YIVO in Vilna for one term.  He published research on Jewish history.  The topic of his YIVO work was: “Di rabiner-shul in vilne 1847-1873” (The rabbinical school in Vilna, 1947-1873).  A portion of the third chapter of this work—entitled “Di batsiung fun der gezelshaft un di regirungs-krayzn tsu der rabiner-shul” (The ties between community and government circles and the rabbinical school)—was published in Yivo-bleter (Pages from YIVO) 10.1-2 (August-September 1936) in Vilna; and in A yor arbet in der aspirantur afn nomen fun d”r tsemekh shabad baym yidishn visnshaflekhn institut (A year’s work in the Dr. Cemach Szabad Training Division of the Yiddish Scientific Institute) (Vilna, 1937).  During WWII, he remained in the Vilna ghetto.  In the middle of the night, the police invaded in the courtyard where he was living.  He was taken out and shot at Ponar.

Sources: Lerer yizker-bukh (Remembrance volume for teachers) (New York, 1952-1954); Sh. Katsherginski, Khurbn vilnbe (The Holocaust in Vilna) (New York, 1947).