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- CHATZKELS, HELENE (1882-1973), pedagogue, writer, and translator.
Born
in Kovno she attended the pedagogical institute at St. Petersburg. From
1905 to 1908, she was a member of the illegal Bund. In the period
1916-1918, she was one of the founders of the Yiddish school network in
Lithuania, remaining one of its leaders throughout its existence. The
author of numerous works on education, Yiddish textbooks, children's
stories, and travelogues, she also compiled the first curriculum for the
study of natural sciences and geography in Yiddish schools (1918). In
1925, when the Yiddish Kultur-Lige ("culture league") was disbanded by
the Lithuanian authorities, Chatzkels, together with Samuel Levin, set
up an illegal leadership for the educational institutions affiliated to
the league, thereby saving them from extinction. Although she supported
the Soviet Union, she was also on friendly terms with Siegfried Lehmann
and acted as adviser to the educational institutions he directed at
Kovno and Ben Shemen (Erez Israel), visiting the latter institution in
1929. In 1931 she published a pamphlet entitled _Araber_, in which she
expressed great admiration for the Zionist pioneers and denounced the
Arabs for the murderous riots against the yishuv. After World War II
she struggled for the reestablishment of the Jewish school system in
Soviet Lithuania, and headed the last Jewish children's home and
elementary school in Kovno, until it was finally closed down by the
Soviets in 1949/50. During the anti-Jewish "struggle against
cosmopolitanism" she wrote letters to the press and to Stalin himself,
protesting against Soviet anti-Semitism. She was given the honorary
title of "meritorious teacher" in 1947, and awarded the Order of the Red
Flag in 1955. Until 1966 she was a teacher of Russian literature at a
Lithuanian secondary school in Kovno. [Esther Rosenthal
(Schneiderman)]
[from _Encyclopaedia Judaica_ (Jerusalem: Keter, 1971)].
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Date: 1 December 1998
From: Robert (Itsik) Goldenberg
Subject: Helene Khatskels Bibliography
Helene Khatskels Bibliography
A. Works by Helene Khatskels
"analiz fun leyen-materyal, ('Analysis of Reading Material'),
_dertsiyungs entsiklopedye_, band 1, nyu-york, 1957, zz. 295-306.
_araber_. vilne: farlag "naye yidishe folkshul," 1931, 47 zz.
_a rayze keyn england_. vilne: farlag "naye yidishe folksshul," 1931
[biblyotek "grininke beymelekh," redaktirt fun Sh. batomski. serye n'
2]. [Polish t.p.: Printed in Poland / Bibljoteka "Grininke Boymelech"
redagowano przez S. Bastomskiego / Helena Chackels / Podroz po Anglji /
Drukarnia "Expres" Wilno, Wielka 33] 45 zz., 4"x5" [not listed in Fuks].
_a zumer in amerike_. vilne: farlag "naye yidishe folkshul," 1931, 78
zz.
_di erd un di velt_ ('The Earth and the World') [a geography textbook
for schools and self-study, with 24 figures in the text], teyl 1,
berlin, 1924, 133 zz.
_di natur arum undz_ ('Nature Around Us') [textbook for folk schools,
with afterword for teachers], berlin, 1922, 117 zz.
_di natur arum undz un mir aleyn_ ('Nature Around Us and We Ourselves')
[a textbook for folk schools], Berlin, 1922, 160 zz., illustrated).
_di program fun naturvisnshaft un geografye mit metodishe onvayzungen_
('The Program of Natural Science and Geography, With Methodological
Instructions'), vilne, 1918, 64 zz. [mit di baylages _A musterheft fun
naturvisnshaft_ un Zalmen Reyzn's _Terminologye far geografye_ ('with
the supplements _A Master Work of Natural Science_ and Zalmen
Reyzen's
_Terminology for Geography_ (iberdrukt in _kultur un bildung_ (moskve),
1918 (reprinted in the journal _Culture and Education_, Moscow, 1918)].
_finland_, vilne: farlag "naye yidishe folkshul," 1931, 40 zz.
_fun oslo biz bergen_ ('From Oslo to Bergen') (a trip across Norway),
vilne: farlag "naye yidishe folkshul," 1931, 59 zz.)
_groyse dergreykhungen un derfindungen_ ('Great Discoveries and
Inventions') [popular talks about physics] Part 1, moskve, 1927, 127 zz.
[with a foreword from the author and complementary supplements by Y.
Zhiv], Part 2, 1927, 110 pp.]
_shmuesn far di ershte tsvey lernyorn folksshul_ ('Talks for the First
Two Grades of Folk School'), kovne, 1924, 12 zz.
- k v a l n / k o l o f o n
- oysgabn:
- Helene Khatskeles, a rayze keyn england
- vilne: farlag «naye yidishe folksshul», 1931
- Helene Khatskeles, araber
- vilne: farlag «naye yidishe folkshul», 1931, 47 zz.
- geveb:
- Ulrich Harsch 2005
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