The noted Palestininan pedagogue and founder of Kfar Yelodim, the chidren’s village, Z. Pugatchow, died here yesterday after an operation in a hospital.
Pugatchow, well-known Tarbuth leader and active for many years in the Palestinian labor movernent, came to Palestine about ten years ago from Russia.
He instituted a notable experiment in education when he founded Kfar Yelodim, known as the children’s commonwealth. Here children of the Palestinian workers lived, supervised only by their teachers, and in the main left free to govern themselves.
Pugatchow, who was born in Kiev, Russia, was fifty-five years old. He was educated in Russia and studied in the University of Kiev. He was a pioneer Zionist leader, having participated in the Choveve Zion movement which began in 1880.
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