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Shloyme Bastomski
Shloyme Bastomski (July 1891 – 5 March 1941, also referred to as Solomon or Shlomo) was a writer, educator, and folklorist active in the Yiddishist education movement. Biography Shylome Bastomski was born in Vilna (now Vilnius, Lithuania) in June 1891 to a poor family of locksmiths. He was orphaned at a young age. He attended school both at Talmud Torah (a Jewish religious school) and a Russian public school for Jewish children, before attending the Vilna Teachers' Seminary, from which he graduated in 1912. He became a teacher at a Jewish public school in nearby Meretsh, but later transferred to one in Dieveniškės. Following the outbreak of World War I and the German occupation of the region in 1915, Bastomski was hired as a teacher at a Yiddish secular public school established by the Khevre Mefitse Haskole ('Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment'). The school was the first such institution in Vilna. Bastomski worked as a journalist in addition to his teaching; he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vilna
Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,667, and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864. Vilnius is notable for the architecture of its Vilnius Old Town, Old Town, considered one of Europe's largest and best-preserved old towns. The city was declared a World Heritage Site, UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994. The architectural style known as Vilnian Baroque is named after the city, which is farthest to the east among Baroque architecture, Baroque cities and the largest such city north of the Alps. The city was noted for its #Demographics, multicultural population during the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, with contemporary sources comparing it to Babylon. Before World War II and The Holocaust in Lithuania, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
