Abraham Golomb (1888,
Lithuania
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- 1982,
Los Angeles
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; Yiddish אברהם יצחק גולומב) was a Yiddishist teacher and writer. He wrote many pedagogical articles and books, and also published, primarily in Yiddish, about his belief in the need for retaining Jewish distinctiveness in the
Diaspora
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and the centrality of Hebrew and Yiddish as the languages of the Jewish people.
His work has not been widely translated into English.
Golomb was affiliated with the Psychology and Education section of
YIVO in Vilna, under the direction of by
Leibush Lehrer,
and was also active in the
Kultur-lige.
From 1921 to 1931, he was the director of the Vilna Teachers Seminary.
After a living in Palestine from 1932 to 1938, Golomb emigrated to
Winnipeg
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, Canada, where he became principal of the
Peretz School. In 1944 he moved to Mexico City, where for 20 years he ran the Yiddish schools. Finally, in 1964 he and his wife Rivke Savich Golomb moved to Los Angeles, California.
Selected works
*''Ṿi fun a fish iz a frosh geṿorn: zikhroynes̀ fun mayn ḳindheyṭ''. (''How a fish became a frog: memories of my childhood'') Bialystok: Ferlag Ḳulṭur lige, 1921.
*''Dos ershṭe mol in ṿald : zikhroynes̀ fun mayn ḳindheyṭ''. (''The first time in the forest: memories of my childhood'') Bialystok: Ferlag Ḳulṭur lige, 1921.
*אייביקע וועגן פון אייביקן פאלק : עסייען / ''Eybiḳe ṿegn fun eybiḳn folḳ : eseyn'' (''Eternal ways of eternal people: essays''). Buenos Aires : Yoyvl-ḳomiṭeṭ, 1964.
*צווישן תקופות /
וןא. גאלאמב'' Tsṿishn tḳufes̀''. (''Between epochs''). Tel-Aviv: Y.L. Peretz, 1968.
References
Further reading
*ישורין, יעפים, 1885־1967. צוזאמענגגעשטעלט פון יעפים ישורין (Abraham Golomb, bibliography / compiled by Ephim. M. Jeshurin) Buenos-Aires (1964)
*Avrum Golomb Der Pedagog (Abraham Golomb the Pedagogue). Archive of the Yiddish Literary Journal Kheshbn, 91 (1978). Archive of the Yiddish Literary Journal Kheshbn, The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, UC Los Angeles. http://escholarship.ucop.edu/uc/item/3wn6m8sd (in Yiddish)
1888 births
1982 deaths
Yiddish-language writers
Yiddish culture in Canada
American people of Lithuanian-Jewish descent
Lithuanian Jews
History of YIVO
Mexican Jews
Jewish American writers
Jewish Canadian writers
Lithuanian emigrants to Mandatory Palestine
Immigrants to Canada
Mandatory Palestine emigrants
Canadian emigrants to Mexico
Mexican emigrants to the United States
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