SHOLEM
(SALOMON, SOLOMON) GOLDELMAN (December 5, 1885-January 3, 1974)
He was born in Soroke (Soroki), Bessarabia. He studied in a senior high school in
Kishinev, and later graduated from a commercial school in Kiev. He was a member of the central committee of
the Poale-Tsiyon party in Ukraine, and he was a member of the Jewish community’s
administrative committee in Kiev and of the Jewish national association of
Ukraine. Over the years 1917-1920, he
was a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev. In 1920 he left for Russia. From 1922 until 1938 he was living in Czechoslovakia. He was professor of economic science at the
Ukrainian University in Prague. He was
chairman of the League for Workers’ Israel in Czechoslovakia. From 1939 he was living in Jerusalem. He published articles on economic issues in
Yiddish in the publications of the Poale-Tsiyon and Tseire-Tsiyon (Young
Zionists) in Russia, in Ukrainian, German, and finally in Hebrew in the press
of the state of Israel. He was the
author of a number of books concerning Jewish economic problems in various
languages. In Yiddish: In goles bay
di ukrainer (In the Diaspora with the Ukrainians), “letter from a Jewish
social-democrat” (Vienna: Hamon, 1921), 144 pp.
Together with Yisrael Drakhler, he edited publications for Hamon
Publishers. [He died in Jerusalem—JAF.]
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