BER
DVORITSHIN (b. 1901)
He was born in a town near Rovno,
Poland. He studied in religious primary
school and yeshivas. He later was an
Orthodox community leader in Volhynia and in the Vilna region. He began publishing articles on Jewish issues
in Dos vort (The word) in Vilna
(1926). He also contributed to Unzer veg (Our way) in Shedlets
(Siedlce), Bendiner vokhnblat (Będzin weekly newspaper), and Ortodoksishe yugnt bleter (Orthodox youth leaves) in Warsaw, among
others. He was murdered by the Germans
during WWII.
Sources: Biblyografishe
yorbikher fun yivo (Bibliographic yearbooks from YIVO) (Warsaw, 1928), p.
211; information from R. Meyer Shvartsman, Winnipeg, Canada.
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