M[OYSHE] ALTSHULER (1887-1969)
He was born in Bobr, Molev (Mogilev) Province [now in
Belarus]. He was a Soviet Yiddish
linguist, writer, and translator.
Biographical information is lacking.
His works include: Gekasherte neshomes
(vegn kheyder) (Koshered souls, on religious primary school) (Kharkov:
Central Committee of the Communist Youth Association in Ukraine, 1922), 32 pp.;
Hagode far gloyber un apikorsim (Haggadah for believers and heretics),
two printings (Moscow, 1927), 24 pp.; F. s. s. r. (Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics), a conversation on the train to be read in clubs and in
the home (Moscow, n.d.), 64 pp.; Anti-religyezer lernbukh
(Anti-religious reader) (Moscow, 1929), 239 pp.; a second “improved and
complementary” printing of the same book was published by Emes in Moscow in
1932, entitled On a got (Without a
God), 252 pp.; Vi azoy darf men firn
antireligyeze propaganda (How to conduct anti-religious propaganda) (Moscow:
Tsentr Publ., 1929), 24 pp.; Komsomolishe
hagode (Communist Youth Haggadah) (Kharkov, 1930?), 18 pp.; Shabes, yomtev un roshkhoydesh (Sabbath,
holiday, and beginning of the month) (Moscow: Emes, 1947), 86 pp. In 1948 his book, Guf un neshome (Body
and soul), was published. He was a
member of the editorial boards of Der
apikoyres (The heretic) (Moscow, 1931-1935) and of Yunge gvardye (Young guard).
In 1934 he contributed to Emes (Truth) in Moscow and to Afn
shprakhfront (On the language front), a collection, in Kiev (1935). From Lenin’s works, he translated Ershte
revolutsye, 1905-1907 (Pervaia Revoliutsiia, 1905-1907 = The first
revolution, 1905-1907), vol. 1 (Moscow, 1925), 302 pp., vol. 2 (Moscow, 1927),
314 pp.; and Tsvey taktikes fun der
sotsyal-demoktratikye un der demokratishe revolutsye ( = Two tactics in social democracy
and the democratic revolution) (Moscow, 1940), 134 pp.
Sources: Sh. Dimantshteyn, Foreword to Altshuler’s Anti-religyezer
lernbukh; N. Rubenshteyn, “Di bikher, produktsye af yidish in sov. farb. in
1932” (Books, produced in Yiddish in the USSR in 1932), Afn visnshaftlekhn
front (On the scientific front) (Minsk, 1933).
Hagode far gloyber un apikorsim (Haggadah for believers and heretics) was illustrated by a famous Jewish artist Aleksandr Tishler (Тышлер, Александр Григорьевич 1898-1980).- Moscow, 1927
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M. ALTSHULER was the author of the first part of Komyugishe politshmuesn :lernbukh far komyugishe politshuln in dray heftn (YCL political talks : anthology for YCL political schools in 3 parts).- MoskveTsentraler felker-farlag fun FSSR, 1929-1930
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