KHAYIM
HOLMSHTOK (1882-1942)
Younger brother of the writer Fayvl
Holmshtok, he was born in Minsk, Byelorussia.
From 1916 to 1918, he lived in the United States. He was active in the “Workers’ University” at
the Sholem-Aleichem Folk Institute in New York.
He returned to Soviet Russia in 1918, and there became a teacher and turned
his attention to Soviet Yiddish scholarship.
He wrote about pedagogy and linguistic matters in various Soviet Yiddish
publications, such as: Yunger pyoner
(Young pioneer) in Minsk (April 2, 1927).
He was the editor of Lingvistishe
zamlung 1 (Linguistics collection 1), with style-editor M. Kulbak (Minsk,
1931), 93 pp.; and Oktyaber-kinder
(October children), with L. Mishkovski and Sh. Rives (Moscow, 1919), a textbook
for Jewish school. He also translated: Dos kinstlerishe shafn (The artistic works) by D. Nikolaevich
[Ovsi︠a︡niko-Kulikovskii] (New York, 1919), 52 pp.; Politishe ekonomye (Political economy [original: Kurs
politicheskoi ekonomii])
by Aleksandr Bogdanov (New York, 1920), vol. 1, 244 pp., vol. 2, 551
pp.; Shtat-visnshaft (State science [original: Ocherki
nauki o gosudarstvi︠e︡])
by V. I. Dunaev and A. A. Nikitskii (New York, 1920), 300 pp. (edited by
Dr. Yitskhok-Ayzik Hurvits); Komunistisher
manifest (Communist manifesto) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Moscow,
1924), 181 pp., republished in Warsaw (1931 and 1932); Di arbet fun der fabrik un zavod-komitet ba di badingungen fun der
itstiker tsayt (The work of the factory and the plant committee under contemporary conditions [original:
Rabota
fabrichno-zavodskikh komitetov v sovremennykh uslovii︠a︡kh]) by F. Seniushkin (Minsk,
1926), 120 pp. He also contributed work
to Afn shprakhfront (On the language
front), in which (no. 3-4) he published a work entitled: “Vegn dem yidishn
oystaytsh-verterbukh” (On the Yiddish explanatory dictionary). He was also editor of Yidisher verterbukh (Yiddish dictionary), test volume (Minsk, 1935),
and he wrote the preface to it. His
subsequent career remains unknown.
Sources: M. Gurevitsh, in Emes (Moscow) 283 (1935); Y. M. Budish, Almanakh in dinst fun folk (Almanac in
service to the people) (New York, 1947), p. 382.
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