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    Grinberg, Y.

    He was a Soviet Jewish writer on pedagogical topics, the author of textbooks and a translator.

    Among his books:

    Arbets Kinder (Labor’s Children), a reader (together with Y. Bakst) (Moscow, 1928);

    There were several readers with the title Arbets-Kinder : Khrestomatye un Arbets-Bukh Farn 2-Tn Lernyor (Labor’s Children=Дети труда) / Y. Grinberg, Y. Mayzl ; edited by H. Polyak. (together with Y. Mayzl)

    Moskve: Farlag Shul un bukh, 1927.- 299 pp., ill.

    Moskve: Farlag Der Emes, 1929.- 266, [1] pp., ill.

    Although the title and participants are identical the contents of the readers differ from each other.

    The earlier edition (1927) has the description of 8 games.

    The initial of Mayzl is "alef" on the cover in Yiddish but in Russian it stands for "И," translitated here as "Y."

    Images courtesy of the Russian State Library (Moscow), Oriental Centre.


    Shprakh, Arbetbukh Farn 2tn Lernyor (Language, Workbook for the Second School Year) (Moscow: Central Publ., 1928), 104 pp., with A. Zaretski and others;

    Yunger Erdarbeter (Young Farmer) (Moscow-Minsk: Central Publ., 1930), 104 pp.;

    Yidn af Erd (Jews on the Earth), “for students at the first level” (with M. Grinberg) (Moscow-Kharkov-Minsk, 1930), 136 pp.;

    Konferents (Conference), “of the Al. K. P. (B) [All-Soviet Communist Party, Bolsheviks] in the form of questions and answers” (together with Shekhtman, Gutman, and Shadir).

    He also translated books into Yiddish from Russian, especially textbooks.

    Biographical information remains unknown.

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