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Klara Berkova

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Klara Naumovna Berkova (Russian: Клара Наумовна Беркова; 1881, Nikolaev - 1938, Moscow), was a Russian writer, doctor of medicine, popularizer of scientific and anti-religious knowledge.[1]

Life

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Berkova was born in Nikolaev or Mykolayiv, Ukraine to a Jewish family.[2] She received her higher education (medical and humanitarian) in Geneva, Switzerland, where she began to publish her writing. She returned to Russia in 1920. She is the author of several popular biographies: Voltaire (with her commentaries published one-volume book of Voltaire. M., 1938), A. S. Pushkin, A. Herzen (1922; 1923), A. Griboedov, P. Holbach (1923), N. G. Chernyshevsky (1925), S. Kravchinsky (Stepnyak) (1925), A. D. Mikhailov (1926) and others, as well as essays on the scientists of the Middle Ages. Author of anti-religious brochures: "Life, its Manifestation, Origin and Development" (1922), "Anti-religious education in the family" (1931), "Does a soul exist?" (1931) and others; medical brochures: "The Truth about Syphilis", (1925), "Tuberculosis is a Worst Enemy of the People" (1925), "Who to Believe? (Doctors and Healers)" (1929), "The Surest Path to Health" (1930) and others.[3] She died in Moscow in 1938 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery (Columbarium, 59 section).[4]

Books

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In Russian

In German

  • Gibt es eine seele? (Does a Soul Exist?) / K. Berkowa ; Aus dem rus. übersetzt von A. Romm. - Engels : Deutscher staatsverlag, 1933. - 20 с.;

In Greek

  • Pos prep na giatrephkymes (How to Treat) / K. Perkov ; Metaphrasi: Gioti Zevgolati. - Rostov Don : Komynisti, 1931. - 22 с.;

In Yiddish

  • Dos lebn : Zayn ontflekung, ontshteyung un entviklung (Life, its Manifestations, Origin and Development) / K.N. Berkov [!] ; Yidish: F. Ayznshtat un F. Muler דאס לעבן : זיין אנטפלעקונג, אנטשטייונג און אנטוויקלונג / [...] ק.נ. בערקאוו ; יידיש: פ. אייזנשטאט און פ. מולער. - Minsk : Melukhe-farlag fun Vaysrusland, 1925. - 96 с. : Ил. ; 17 см. - מינסק : cמעלוכע-פארלאג פון ווייסרוסלאנד, 1925. - 96 с. : Ил. ; 17 см. - Минск : Белорусское государственное издательство, 1925. - 96 с. : Ил. ;
  • בערקאָווא .ק Vos iz antshtanen frier - di hun oder di ay? (What Came First – the Chicken or the Egg?)/ K. Berkova ; Yidish - D.M וואָס איז אנטשטאנענ פריער - די הונ אָדער די איי / ק. בערקאָווא ; יידיש - ד.מ. - Minsk : Melukhe-farlag fun Vaysrusland. Natssekter, 1932. - 31 с. ; 21 см. - (Bibliotek far veynik-ivredike ; No. 1). - (ביבליאָטעק פאר ווייניקיוורעדיקע ; No. 1). - (Библиотека для малограмотных ; No. 1). - מינסק : מעלוכע-פארלאג פונ ווייסרוסלאנד. יידסעקטער, 1932. - 31 с. ; 21 см. - (Bibliotek far veynik-ivredike ; No. 1). - (ביבליאָטעק פאר ווייניקיוורעדיקע ; No. 1). - (Библиотека для малограмотных ; No. 1). - Минск : Государственное издательство Белоруссии. Нацсектор, 1932. - 31 с. ; 21 см. - (Bibliotek far veynik-ivredike ; No. 1). - (ביבליאָטעק פאר ווייניקיוורעדיקע ; No. 1). - (Библиотека для малограмотных ; No. 1)

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