MOTL KRUGLYAK

MOTL KRUGLYAK

            He was born in Boslev (Bohuslav), Ukraine.  He studied in a research student capacity in the pedagogical section of the Scientific Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture in the All-Ukrainian Academy of Science in Kiev.  He was a professor in the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute in Nizhyn.  Initially a Bundist, he later joined the Communist Party.  He wrote mainly on pedagogical matters and published textbooks.  His work appeared in: Ratnbildung (Soviet education) and Af di vegn tsu der nayer shul (On the road to the news school) in Moscow, Yunger shlogler (Young shock troop) in Kharkov, and the anthology Kamf af tsvey frontn in der pedagogik (Struggle on two fronts in pedagogy) (Kharkov-Kiev: Ukrainian Academy of Scholars and the Institute for Jewish Proletarian Culture, 1932).  In book form: Lenins ruf, lernbukh far veynik-ivredike (Lenin’s call, a textbook for the nearly illiterate), with a group of teachers (Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1926), 222 pp.; Zay greyt, alefbeyz far der onfang-shul (Get ready, alphabet book for primary school), with Pinye Burganski (Kharkov, 1932), 54 pp.; Af naye vegn, arbet bukh farn 2-tn lernyor (On new pathways, workbook for the second school year) (Kharkov, 1932), 220 pp.; Gezelshaftkentenish, lernbukh farn IV lernyor (Social knowledge, textbook for the fourth school year), with Ester Shnayderman (Kharkov, 1932), 2 vols.; Lernbukh af literatur (Textbook for literature), with S. Shnayderman (Kharkov, 1932), 156 pp.; Di literatur in shul (Literature in school) (Kharkov, 1933).  He translated: I. Borisov, Ekonomishe geografye fun sotsyalistishn ratnfarband (The economic geography of the socialist Soviet Union) (Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1925), 174 pp.; and V. Kistiyakovski, Geografye fun u.r.s.s. (Geography of the USSR) (Kiev: Kultur-lige, 1927), 151 pp.

Source: Ester Rozental-Shnayderman, in Tsukunft (New York) (October 1976), p. 322.

Berl Cohen