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Polotsky Sholom-Shatskhne Israelovich-Zalmanovich (1889)

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SurnamePolotsky
NameSholom-Shatskhne
PatronymIsraelovich-Zalmanovich
Birth year1889
Birth month12
Birth day27
SexM

Polotsky (Polotzky) Sholom-Shatskhne (Scholom-Schakschne) Israelovich-Zalmanovich (27 December 1889 [8 January 1890], Riga – ?) — teacher.

Sholom-Shatskhne Polotsky began his pedagogical practice as early as 1909 at a private boys’ school on Smolenskaya Street (now Pushkina Street) in Riga. In the 1914/15 academic year he taught at the Private Jewish Gymnasium of Engineer Ya. L. Landau.

Later he taught at a primary school in Tartu; in 1919–1920 he worked as a teacher at the Chemerinskaya and Kozarinskaya schools in Kyiv; in 1920–1921 he taught at the 2nd Jewish National School in Petrograd. In 1924 he graduated from the Historical-Pedagogical Department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Leningrad University.

In December 1926, at a meeting of the Philological and Philosophical Faculty of the University of Latvia, his diploma was not recognised; nevertheless, he was permitted to work in schools. He taught Hebrew and Jewish history at the Primary and Secondary Schools of the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Art and Knowledge, the private Jewish Gymnasium “Tushiya,” the Jewish Private Secondary and Primary School “Ezras,” and the Private Jewish Secondary and Primary Gymnasium of I. Raukhvarger.

In 1926–1927 Sholom-Shatskhne Polonsky also taught Hebrew and Jewish history at the two-year Jewish pedagogical courses and at the summer Jewish pedagogical courses.

He was married to Khaya Magrachova.