ARN BERGMAN

ARN BERGMAN (1896-July 21, 1963)

            He was born in Lodz and emigrated to the United States in 1921.  In 1927 he graduated from the Jewish teachers’ seminary in New York.  He was a teacher at schools of “Ordn” (International Workers Order).  Among his books: Idish, arbetbukh af shprakh farn fertn un fiftn lernyor (Yiddish, language textbook for the fourth and fifth school years), with I. Goldberg (New York: International Workers Order 1936), 132 pp.; Undzer bukh (Our book), co-authored with I. Goldberg, literary reader for middle school (New York: International Workers Order 1939), 384 pp., new editions (1945, 1955); Yidish, arbetbukh far der mitlshul (Yiddish, textbook for middle school), vols. 1-2 (New York, 1950), 62 pp., third edition (1950), 131 pp.; Undzer bukh, lernbukh farn ershtn yor mitlshul (Our book, textbook for the first year of middle school) (New York: Committee for Progressive Jewish Education, 1952), 208 pp.; Yidish-english english-yidish verterbukh, far shul un heym (Yiddish-English English-Yiddish Dictionary for school and home) (New York: Kinderbukh, 1968), 131, 141 pp.  He died in New York.

Berl Kagan, comp., Leksikon fun yidish-shraybers (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers) (New York, 1986), col. 102.