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SHATSKI (b. 1900)
He was born in Loshe (Łoša),
Byelorussia. He began work as a typesetter
at age fifteen in a Minsk print shop.
From 1930 he was a member of the Communist Party. He graduated from the Minsk pedagogical institute,
and he went on to take up teaching Yiddish language and literature in a Minsk
middle school. In the late 1920s, when a
Yiddish division was opened in the Byelorussian Academy of Science, he was invited
to be a contributor. He published in: Emes (Truth), Oktyabr (October), Shtern
(Star), and Afn shprakhfront (On the
language front), among other serials. He
developed an original system of Yiddish stenography, and he became the first
teacher of this system organized in 1927 by the Byelorussian Educational
Committee. During WWII he was at the
front, and after demobilization he lived in the city of Zlatoust. In 1958 he moved to Moscow, and in later
years he published in Sovetish heymland
(Soviet homeland). He made aliya to
Israel in 1994. In book form: Yidishe stenografye far zelbstbildung (Yiddish
stenography for self-education) (Minsk: Central Publ., 1929), 184 pp.; Stenotipye, kurtsshrift far der shrayb-mashinke un pen (Stenotpye, shorthand
for the typewriter and pen) (Minsk: Byelorussian Academy of Science, 1935), 41
pp.
Source:
Sovetish heymland (Moscow) 3 (1977).
Berl Cohen
[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), p. 377.]
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