KHAYIM-LEYB
VALDMAN (April 21, 1889-September 20, 1954)
He was born in the town of Karlovka,
near Borshchew (Borszczow), eastern Galicia, into a well-off, merchant family. He studied in religious elementary school and
in a small house of study, and he later graduated from high school and became a
teacher. In 1922 he moved to Canada, where
he lived in Winnipeg until 1928 and thereafter settled in New York. He was a teacher in the schools associated
with the Workmen’s Circle and the Jewish National Workers’ Alliance in New
York, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia.
He published articles on educational issues in: Idishe prese (Jewish press) in Winnipeg. He authored a short textbook, Idish far onfanger (Yiddish for
beginners), vol. 1 (Boston, 1935), 19 pp., with “several remarks” by the
author, in which he clarified his method of teaching Yiddish to beginners. He died in Philadelphia.
Sources:
Idisher kemfer (New York) (October 15,
1954); information from his wife Ana in Miami Beach, Florida.
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