BENISH
KAPLYOVITSH (1891-1941)
He was born in Vilna Province. In his childhood he moved with his parents to
Minsk. In 1912 he passed the
baccalaureate examinations in Odessa and in 1925 graduated from the Yiddish
division of the philological university in Minsk. He took up teaching in Jewish schools in
Minsk and from 1932 in Birobidzhan. He
published pedagogical articles in Birobidzhaner
shtern (Birobidzhan star). In book
form: Rusish in der yidisher shul
(Russian in the Jewish school) (Moscow: Emes, 1935) and a Russian-Yiddish
dictionary (Moscow, 1941) (unseen).
Source:
Sovetish heymland (Moscow) 12 (1983).
Berl
Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun
yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York,
1986), col. 476.
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