YISROEL
DUBOVSKI (b. 1892)
He was born in Vilna,
Lithuania. In 1912 he graduated from the
Vilna teachers’ institute and later worked as a teacher in Trok (Trakai), near
Vilna. During WWI, he was among those laying
the foundations for the secular Jewish school movement. He was a teacher for the Central Educational
Committee in Vilna and among the active leaders of Tsisho (Central Jewish
School Organization). He was also active
in the Bundist movement. He published
articles on educational issues in Unzer
gedank (Our thoughts) in Vilna. He
edited the collection Far unzer shul un
kind (For our school and child) (Vilna, 1928), 58 pp. In the early 1930s, he and his wife moved to
Revel (Tallinn), Estonia, and until the German occupation in June 1941 he was a
teacher in a secular Jewish school. He
died in a German concentration camp in Estonia.
Sources:
Lerer yizker-bukh (Remembrance volume
for teachers) (New York, 1955), p. 125; oral information from Khayim Pupko in
New York.
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