Moshe Menachovsky, Canadian Jewish educator, author, and community and cultural leader, died here at 75. Born in Pinsk, he came to Canada in 1930. In 1932, he founded the Borochov School and Kindergarten in Toronto and was its principal until 1955.
Mr. Menachovsky was a member of the Achdut Avodah central committee of Poale Zion; was on the Board of directors of YIVO; and was a member of the Congress for Jewish Culture’s world bureau for education. He was the author of Jewish Youth at the Crossroads; Ber Borochov. His Life and Works and The Problem of Mixed Marriages in Jewish Literature. He was editor of Proletarian Thought (now Unser Veg) from 1938 until 1941. He had been a co-founder of the Central Yiddish School Organization (Tsisho) in Poland, and had established the first Jewish school in Brest-Litovsk(Brisk) where he had served as a member of the City Council before emigrating to Canada.
Mr. Menachovsky has been a co-principal of the Jewish Folk Schools of Toronto since 1955. He was a contributor to pedagogical and literary journals in Poland, Argentina, Canada, the United States and Israel. He recently participated in the Canadian Jewish Congress’ Canadian Assembly on Yiddish.
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