Tuvia Heilikman

Tuvia Heilikman was born in Mogilev, Belorussia, and studied in Kiev. He helped found the Bundist party in Kiev and coedited the Vilna Bundist weekly Nashe slovo in 1906. Settling in Moscow after the February revolution, he continued his Bundist activities. Heilikman worked in the Central Jewish Education Office. His Geshikhte fun der gezeshaftlekher bavegung fun di yidn in poyln un rusland competed with Dubnov’s history by focusing on internal Jewish class conflict and emphasizing the role of communal organizations in perpetuating oppression. Heilikman worked at the Department of Yiddish Language and Literature at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute until its close in 1938, taught briefly at the Belorussian State University, and helped to reestablish the Bureau of Proletarian Jewish Culture in Kiev after World War II.