YISROEL GOLDMAN (October 20, 1879-August 2, 1947)
He was born in Kamenets-Podolsk
(Kamianets-Podilskyi), Russia. He studied in religious primary school and in
a house of study (or small synagogue), and general subject matter with private
tutors. After his bar mitzvah, he
studied ritual slaughter with an uncle, the ritual slaughterer of Zvenits. At age fifteen he was prepared to sit for the
examinations as an external student. He
supported himself giving lessons. Over
the years 1904-1909, he was a teacher in the Kamenets Talmud-Torah; 1909-1915,
he was secretary of the Podolsk area committee of YIKO (Jewish Cultural
Organization). In 1916 he settled in
Kiev, where he worked in community and Zionist institutions. He was connected with ORT (Association for
the Promotion of Skilled Trades), 1917-1919, as a statistician. He was arrested, 1922-1924, by the Soviets
for “counter-revolutionary” activities.
In 1925 he made aliya to Israel.
He published his literary works in Russian-Jewish, Hebrew, and Yiddish
newspapers, among them: Di velt (The world) in Vienna. In book form, there appeared a collection of
his writings, entitled Ideal un lebn (Ideal and life), prose and poetry
(Vilna, 1904). He died in Tel Aviv.
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