Z. VAYSMAN

Z. VAYSMAN (b. ca. 1875)

            He was born in Byelorussia.  Until the Bolshevik Revolution, he was active in Jewish community life in Byelorussia and Ukraine.  From 1925 he was a teacher of higher mathematics in an “Arbfak” (Workers’ faculty) and in the Jewish Cooperative Technicum in Kiev.  He also served as the bookkeeper for the publishing house of “Kultur-lige” (Culture league) in Kiev.  He published articles in the Communist Yiddish press in Russia.  He translated from Russian into Yiddish the following textbooks for the schoolroom: K. P. Lebedyntsev, Algebraishe oyfgabes (Algebra assignments]), part 1 (Kiev, 1925), 120 pp., second enlarged edition (Kiev, 1926), 138 pp.; Y. Polonski, Bli fun geviksn, a kapitl byologye (Plants in bloom, a chapter in biology) (Kiev, 1927), 82 pp., with 5 pp. of glossary of floral terminology in Yiddish, Russian, and Latin; Y. L. Hurvits, Onfang-yedies fun geometrye, lernbukh far der mitlshul dos finftn lernyor  (Beginning information for geometry, textbook for middle school, fifth school year) (Moscow, 1933), 77 pp. plus 2 pp.; Hurvits, Sistematisher kurs fun geometrye, lernbukh far der mitlshul, ershter teyl, planimetrye, 6tn-8tn lernyor (Systematic course in geometry, textbook for middle school, part one, planimetrics, 6^th-8^th school years) (Moscow, 1933), 203 pp. plus 5 pp.; Hurvits, Sistematisher kurs fun geometrye, lernbukh far der mitlshul, tsveyter teyl, stereometrye, 8tn-9tn lernyor (Systematic course in geometry, textbook for middle school, part two, stereometrics, 8^th-9^th school years) (Moscow, 1934), 156 pp. plus 4 pp., which appeared in numerous editions until 1937; N. Rivkin, Zamlung oyfgabes af trigonometrye, far der mitlshul, 6tn-8tn lernyor (Collection of assignments for trigonometry, for middle school, 6^th-8^th school years) (Moscow, 1933), 140 pp.; Rivkin, Zamlung oyfgabes af trigonometrye, mit a tsugob oyfgabes af stereomeṭrye, vos fodern dem onvend fun trigonometrye, far der mitlshul, 8tn-9tn lernyor (Collection of assignments for trigonometry, with the addition of assignments in stereometrics, which necessitate the application of trigonometry, for middle school, 8^th-9^th school years) (Moscow, 1934), 117 pp.; Rivkin Gradlinike trigonometrye, lernbukh farn 9tn un 10tn klas fun der mitlshul (Rectilinear trigonometry, textbook for the 9^th and 10^th classes of middle school) (Moscow, 1934), last edition (Moscow, 1940), 106 pp. with 2 pp. of diagrams; A. Kiselyov, Algebre, lernbukh farn 6tn un 7tn klas fun der mitlshul (Algebra, textbook for the sixth and seventh classes of middle school), part 1 (Kiev-Kharkov, 1936), 143 pp.; Kiselyov, Geometrye (Geometry), edited by Professor N. A. Glagolyov (Moscow, 1935), 143 pp. plus five diagrams, last edition (1940).  There has been no news of his fate since WWII.

Sources: Biblyografishe yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO), vol. 1 (Warsaw, 1928), p. 356; N. Rubinshteyn, Dos yidishe bukh in sovetn-farband in 1934 (The Yiddish book in the Soviet Union in 1934) (Minsk, 1936), see index; information from Y. Birnboym in New York.

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