Monday 4 April 2016

YISROEL HERSHNBOYM

YISROEL HERSHNBOYM
            He was the author of a pamphlet, Shtshedrin, a shtetl in rekonstruktivn period (Shtshedrin [Shchedrin], a town under reconstruction) (Minsk, 1931), 45 pp.  It includes: (1) the social-economic structure of Shtshedrin population; (2) the collective farm, “the socialist way”; (3) cottage industry; (4) culture and ways of life among the Shtshedrin population; and (5) the political and community physiognomy of Shtshedrin.  Biographical details remain unknown.

Source: Di oysgabes fun institut far yidisher proletarisher kultur (The publications of the Institute for Proletarian Culture) (Minsk, 1933), p. 9.


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