ARN
MAKAGON (1898-March 15, 1963)
He was born in Uman, Ukraine. He attended Kiev University and worked at the
Ukrainian Scientific Institute for Pedagogy.
At age fifteen he began his teaching work in village schools, later as a
teacher in Uman, and later still as a school inspector in Uman. From 1920 to 1928, he was inspector for the
Commissariat for Education in Kharkov. Over
the years 1928-1932, he served as editor for the children’s newspaper Zay gezunt (Be well) in Kharkov and the
journal Ratnbildung (Soviet
education). He was head of the Party section
for scholarship and higher education for the Kharkov region (1932-1934), and
until 1937 he was head of the school administration and leader of the
methodology section of the People’s Commissariat of Education in Ukraine. In 1937 he was purged and exiled to a camp in
Kazakhstan. After being freed, he spent
the last years of his life in Siberia in the city of Rubtsovsk in the Altai region, where he was
in charge of technical education in an Altai tractor factory. .
Together with A. Shprakh, he compiled Politufkler-arbet in shtetl, hantbukh far yidishe politufkler-tuer
(Political educational work in towns, handbook for Jewish activists in political
education) (Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1928), 139 pp.; and with L. Mishkovski, he
edited Kamf un oyfboy, khrestomatye farn
5tn lernyor fun der arbet-shul (Struggle and construction, reader for the
fifth school year in the workers’ school) (Kharkov, 1928), 423 pp. He also wrote: Antireligyezer kultur-marsh (Anti-religious cultural march)
(Kharkov: Central Publ., 1929), 36 pp.; Kegn
got un zayne diner (Against God and his servants) (Moscow: Central Publ.,
1929), 28 pp.; with L. Mishkovski, A. Spivak,
and H. Kozakevitsh, In kamf, arbetbukh af shprakh, literatur un gezelshaftkentenish (In the struggle, workbook in language, literature,
and social information) (Kharkov: Central Publ., 1930), 248 pp.; with H.
Kozakevitsh, In kamf, arbetbukh af shprakh un gezelshaftkentenish far
3tn lernyor (In the struggle,
workbook in language and social information for the third school year) (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk,
1931) 342 pp. + 6 pp.; with A. Spivak and H. Kozakevitsh, Arbetbukh af shprakh, literatur un
gezelshaftkentenish farn fertn lernyor (Workbook in language, literature, and social information for the
fourth school year) (Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1931), 447 pp.
Sources:
Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim
babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications in the Soviet Union,
1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), see index; Sovetish
heymland (Moscow) 3 (May-June 1963), chronology.
Benyomen Elis
[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. 226-27.]
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