KHAYIM RABINOVITSH (CHAIM RABINOWITZ) (ca. 1883-December 13, 1972)
He was
born in Deretshin (Dziarechyn), Byelorussia. He studied in religious elementary school and
synagogue study chamber. In 1900 he left
for Vilna and in 1919 for Slonim. He was
active in the Bund, later becoming a Zionist.
He spent WWII in the Soviet Union.
After the war he lived in Lodz and Munich, and from 1950 he was in
Israel. His work appeared in Sefer slonim (Volume for Slonim) and Sefer derechin (Volume for Dziarechyn)
(Tel Aviv, 1972). In book form: 9 doyres, 200 yor zikhroynes fun undzer
familye (Nine generations, 200 years of memoirs of our family) (Tel Aviv,
1969/1970), 212 pp. + 164 pp., in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English. He died in Tel Aviv.
Ruvn Goldberg
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