SHAME
KHALATNIKOV (b. 1876)
He was born in Ruzhin, Kiev
district, Ukraine. He studied in
religious elementary school and in a small synagogue study hall. At age thirteen he had to go to work to help his
family. Early in the day he would read
books in Hebrew and Yiddish, and he wrote poetry and stories in both
languages. At age nineteen he turned to
secular subjects, became an external student, and in 1903 set out to pursue his
studies in Switzerland, but he got stuck in Chortkov (Chortkiv), eastern
Galicia, where he founded one of the first Hebrew-taught-in-Hebrew schools in
Galicia. Fortuitously, he met Leyzer
Rokeach, the editor of the weekly Der
veker (The alarm) in Buczacz, and in it he published several poems and a
story. He also published a Hebrew story
in Rokeach’s monthly Hayarden (The
garden). From that point, he published
stories and articles in: Lemberger
togblat (Lemberg daily newspaper) and Der
yudisher arbayter (The Jewish laborer) in Lemberg; Der tog (The day) in Cracow; Der
id (The Jew); Snunit (Swallow),
edited by G. Shofman; and Haolam (The
world); among others. In 1910 he
published the Hebrew-language monthly Tsafririm
(Zephyrs)—only one issue appeared. In
1911 the publishing house of Hateḥiya
(Revival) in Warsaw brought out a collection of his stories and images in
Hebrew under the title Pesiya rishona
(First step). He was interned during WWI
in Stanislavov as a Russian citizen. He
later lived in the provincial town of Bili (Biel?) in Switzerland. No further information has been forthcoming
about him.
Source:
Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 2.
Borekh Tshubinski
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