Abraham Solomonick

In 1933, the family moved to Leningrad, where Solomonick graduated from secondary school and, in 1949, from the Law Institute, named after Mikhail Kalinin.During this time, he also studied the teaching of English at the local Pedagogical Institute, receiving a master's degree in the field at the beginning of 1954.In November of the same year, he began working at the Israeli Ministry of Education as a supervisor of Ulpans (centers for teaching Hebrew to adults from a wide range of countries).Among his most important accomplishments were the composition of new teaching manuals and the setting up of language laboratories with visual and audio devices to help adults learn Hebrew.While working at the Ministry of Education, Solomonick created a broad selection of teaching aids geared to different types of learning communities.Among his works were grammars for Russian and English speakers, phonetic exercises for them and for Ethiopian Jews, and lessons for presentation in radio broadcasts to the former Soviet Union.The collection of signs and sign-systems that surround us at any given moment constitute the semiotic reality we use in our everyday life, in our scientific investigations, and in our cultural activities.In Solomonick's view, while studying the ontological environment, humans develop a new sphere of reality: the semiotic one, which includes all signs and sign-systems, invented and accepted in different civilizations on the Earth.On the contrary, physical formulas or chemical reactions discovered several thousand years ago are only strengthened by additional cases of their practical application.The formula for buoyant force discovered by Archimedes (3rd century BC) has retained its predictive power, although it has significantly expanded the scope of its application.Each science and sphere of practical activity strives to increase the specific weight of exact predictions at the expense of approximate results; and in this Solomonick sees an additional guide in the development of scientific knowledge.