MOTL
LIBERMAN (b. 1897)
He was born in Slonim, Byelorussia,
into a working-class family. During WWI
he moved with his parents to Minsk. He
studied in religious elementary school and a state school, and he later worked
as a teacher in Jewish schools in various cities of Byelorussia. He was known as a bibliographer and a
literary critic. From 1925 he was contributing
work in Oktyabr (October) in Minsk
(1925-1941) and in the monthly Shtern
(Star) in Minsk (1925-1941); he also placed work Yunger leninets (Young Leninist) in Minsk (1929-1937; over the
years 1930-1933, he was also editor).
His work also appeared in: Der
emes (The truth) in Moscow; Ratnbildung
(Soviet education) in Kharkov (1928-1937); and Der apikoyres (The heretic) in Moscow (1931-1935); among others. He authored the pamphlet: Biblyotekn tsu dinst der sotsyalistisher
boyung (Libraries in the service of socialist construction) (Minsk, 1932),
72 pp. Together with F. Zaltsman and Kh.
Maltinski, he compiled the reader Literarishe
zamlung far kinder-gertner (Literary anthology for kindergarteners) (Minsk,
1936), 126 + 3 pp. There has been no
further information about him since the start of WWII.
Sources:
B. Nadel, in Ratnbildung (Kharkov)
10-11 (9132); N. Rubinshteyn, Dos yidishe
bukh in sovetn-farband 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935 (The Yiddish book in the
Soviet Union, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935), see indices; Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications
in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index; information from
Al. Pomerants in New York.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
[Additional
information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon
fun yidishe shrayber in ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish
writers in the Soviet Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York:
Congress for Jewish Culture, Inc., 2011), pp. 202-3.]
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