YAKOB
YEDVABNIK
He came from Warsaw, Poland. He was active in the organization to settle
Jews on the land and on assignment traveled to Argentina in 1889 to investigate
the local Baron Hirsch colony. Together
with Izidor Helman, he was the author of Di
beshraybung fon argentina in ihre kolonyen (A description of Argentina and
its colonies) (Warsaw, 1890), 64 pp., which was published in five editions, the
last in 1893 with the title: De
beshraybung fon argentina un ihre kolonyen mitn bild fun baran hirsh un zayne
byografye un der plan fun di kolonyen (A description of Argentina and its
colonies with a picture of Baron Hirsch and his biography and the plan for the
colonies), 108 pp.
Source:
Sh. Rozhanski, Dos yidishe gedrukte vort in argentine (The published
Yiddish word in Argentina) (Buenos Aires, 1941), p. 9.
Khayim Leyb Fuks
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