1800s-1900's GOMEL, BELARUS: Education & Culture

GOMEL: EDUCATION AND CULTURE

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“Religion, Life & Pockets of Jewish Culture”

Vladimir Raysky

(from Notes on Jewish History)

Gomel:

1854 State-owned Jewish School, 1^st grade, opened.

Sh. L. Utevsky, an active community leader and timber merchant, was a benefactor of the school.

Solomon Kuchma Zalmanov—teacher—Hebrew (graduated in 1849 from the Mogilev Jewish State-owned School Level II)

Joseph Samuilovich Glikin—teacher—Torah & German

Gregory M. Dillon---teacher from 1868 (Vilna Rabbinical School graduate)

1910 RD Sirkin 4-class Progymnasium

Teachers: AE Rokach, SM Skutelskaya, FI Elyasheva, RJ Hudolinskaya, MM Burtsev, OI Shabsina, KA Hamburg, GA Levine, SJ Syrkina-Grodzenskaya, TS Manevitch, MS Skutelsky, ES Friedman, GS Raysky, MM Iozefovich, MM Volov, KY Yaroshevski, VP Miterev

School Doctor: SI Livshits

1896-97 Report on the State of the Gomel Male Progymnasium: A list of students who transferred from:

Preparatory class to I: Zakharin Benjamin, Freiling Alexander

Class I to II: Greenberg Efroim Itska, Zaharin David Levitin Naum, Ravikovitch Joseph, Slonitsky Boris, Sodman Ilya

Class II to III: Zyskanovich Abram, Etinger Leyvik

Class III to IV: Gunzburg Movsha Meer, Zaharin Shender

Class IV to V: Halperin Reuben, Zeitlin Tzemach

Class V toVI: Bykhovsky Shmuylo, Grossman David, Zaguskin Shlema,  Kankovsky Joseph

Class VI to VII: Boris Lurie, Miller Leo/Lev, Etinger Leiba

Class VII to  VIII: Gdalevich Shlema, Glickman Abram, Navyazhsky Hirsch, Zeitlin Lev

Awards for good behavior & excellent progress: Freydlingu Alexander, Ravikovitch Joseph, Etinger Leyvik, Gunzburg Movsha Meer, Kharlap Jacob, Glikman Abraham, Zeitlin Lev

1898 Gymnasium graduates: Gdalevich Shlema, Glickman Abram, Dzemyanovich Joseph, Kotov Simeon, Navyazhsky Hirsch.

Gold medal awarded to Zeitlin Lev.

1898 A list of students who transferred to next higher grades:

Utevsky Haim Elperin Shmuylo

Zakharin Benjamin, Margolin Zalman, Skutelsky Boruch, Stasevich Michael, Freydling Alexander, Dubnov Moses, Zaharin David, Levitin Naum, Golovchiner Morduch, Zyskovich Abram, Etinger Leyvik, Zaharin Shender, Lepretr Edward, Halperin Reuben, Zeitlin Tzemach, bykhovsky Shmuylo, Grossman David, Zaguskin Shlema, Kankovsky Joseph, Kharlap Jacob, Lurie Boruch, Etinger Leib

Gomel Jewish Beneficiary Society For the Poor

1912

Naum Il. Alexandrov—chairman

MS Skutelsky—treasurer

TS Zeitlin—secretary

EE Shatsev, BA Kantorovich, EE Shatsev, & IM Tversky—chairmen of the audit committee

1913

IS Dobkin—Chairman of the Board

Members—EA Dunaevskaya, GM Merpert, MG Navyazhskaya, MS Skutelsky, TS Zeitlin

Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment Among the Jews

1910

SL Vygodsky—committee head

MS Skutelsky, ZL Filkelshteyn, NI Aleksandrov, RV Brooke, MV Volov, ZG Levinman, AM Liskovich, LA Sheynbaum

Music

Book & Music Store—JG Syrkina

Piano Tuner—MA Gimelman—practiced at the factory of J. Becker, had accolades from the Kiev Imperial Music School

Music School—SL Zakharina