Shklyar Efraim Berk (Yefrem) Ilyich (05.10.1871, Timkovichi, Minsk Governorate — ?) — educator.
Born into a petty bourgeois (meshchane) family. In September 1904 he graduated from the St Petersburg Conservatory of the Imperial Russian Musical Society, studying composition theory under Professor N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov.
From 1905 he taught at the St Petersburg School of the Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment Among the Jews of Russia.
In 1923 he moved to Latvia, where until 1932 he taught singing methodology at the State Jewish Pedagogical Courses. He taught singing lessons at the private Jewish gymnasium “Tushiya,” the Riga Jewish Public Gymnasium and basic school, and Riga municipal Jewish basic schools Nos. 5, 11, and 12.
In June 1940 he received permission from the School Department of the Ministry of Education to continue his teaching activity.
Wife Shima (née Gelbfish)
son Isaac (b. 1907)

daughter Galina (b. 1910).

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archive, Fund 1632, inv. 1, file 20847.