MORYKHE
(MORDEKHAI) ALTSHULER (b. October 25, 1932)
He was born in Suwalk, Poland. In 1940 he was deported with his family to
Siberia. From 1946 he was living in Wrocław, Lower Silesia, where he studied in a Yiddish and Hebrew
school. In 1949 he made aliya to
Israel. Over the years 1956-1974, he
studied Hebrew literature, as well as general and Jewish history, at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, from which he received his doctorate for a
dissertation on the history of the Jewish Section in the Soviet Union
(1918-1930). From 1968 he was an
instructor there and subsequently a professor of modern Jewish history. He has published two books in Hebrew, as well
as an array of articles in Hebrew- and English-language periodicals. He compiled and edited (with Y. Lifshits) the
volume Briv fun yidishe sovetishe shraybers (Letters
from Soviet Yiddish writers) (Jerusalem, 1979), 501 pp.
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