Moshe Altschuler

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Mosche Altschuler ( Russian Мойше Альтшулер / Transliteration : Moische Altschuler ; scientific transliteration Mojše Al'tšuler ; born 1887 in Bobr (Бобр), Belarus , Russian Empire ; died 1969 in the Soviet Union ) was a Soviet journalist, linguist, writer. He wrote in Yiddish and Russian . He was a member of the editorial board of the Black Book on the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union.

Life

His father was a rabbi . Moshe Altschuler had been a member of the Russian Communist Party since 1919 . He was one of the professors of the Communist University of the National Minorities of the West (KUNMS) in Moscow , where from 1921 to the end of 1930 trained staff from the Soviet Union and from communist parties in a number of other countries.

He is considered the well-known figure of Yevsekzija , d. H. of the Jewish section of the Communist Party. In the years 1931-1935 he was editor-in-chief of the Yiddish magazine Der Apikoires ("The Epicurean", i.e. godless) and Junge Garde ("The Young Guard"). He was a member of the editorial board of Der Emes . In 1931 he was part of the editorial staff of the Tribune . He was an active figure in anti-religious propaganda. He has published several books on this subject, including a special Yiddish-language anti-religious textbook ( Antireligyezer lernbukh ), to which Semjon Dimantstein wrote the foreword.

Fonts

(See the references in: Anna Shternshis: Soviet and Kosher: Jewish Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1923-1939 ( partial online view )).

  • Kasherte neshomes (vegn kheyder ) (koshered souls) ( Kharkov : Central Committee of the Communist Youth Association in Ukraine, 1922)
  • Hagode far gloyber un apikorsim ( Haggadah for believers and apostates ) (Moscow 1927)
  • Antireligyezer lernbukh (anti-religious textbook) (Moskve: Tsentraler felker-farlag fun FSSR 1929)
  • Vi azoy may men firn antireligyeze propaganda (How to carry out anti-religious propaganda) (Moscow: Tsentr Publ., 1929)
  • Komsomolishe hagode ( Communist Youth - Haggadah ) ( Kharkov , 1930?)
  • Shabes, yomtev un roshkhoydesh ( Sabbath , feast day and beginning of the month ) (Moscow: Emes, 1947)

literature

  • David Shneer: Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930 . 2004 ( partial online view )
  • Gennady Estraikh: In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance With Communism . 2005 ( partial online view )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The black book on the criminal mass extermination of the Jews by the fascist German conquerors in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union and in the fascist extermination camps of Poland during the war of 1941–1945 . Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.). German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger : Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994. ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
  2. Russian Евсекция; scientific Evsekcija
  3. cf. Association of the fighting godless [EM Jaroslawski / Kamphausen / Penner / Finger / Friesen]: Anti-religious textbook for the village . Zentral-Völker-Verlag, Moscow, 1931 ( book trade link )
  4. Moscow. Zentraler Verlag der Völker der SSSR / Zentral-Verlag der Völker des Bund der Socialist Räte-Republiken / Zentral-Völker-Verlag des Bund der SRR / etc.