KHAYIM FEYGIN (January 25, 1890)
He was
born in Klimovitsi (Klimavichy), Mohilev district, Byelorussia. He studied in religious elementary school and
yeshiva. In 1914 he graduated from the
St. Petersburg Agronomical Institute. In
1916 he left for Denmark where he worked in a milk cooperative. He returned to St. Petersburg after the
February Revolution. From his youth, he
was involved in various Zionist activities, and he belonged to the Labor Zionists. In 1920 he was appointed leader of the agricultural
division of ORT (Association for the Promotion of Skilled Trades) for Northwest
Russia. In 1923 he made aliya to the
land of Israel. For a time he worked at
Maariv near Petaḥ Tikva
and at Mikve Yisrael. In 1928 he
was sent by ORT to Romania, where he was active in all wings of Jewish agriculture
and at the same time was in charge of the Labor Zionists. He contributed to Yiddish newspapers in
Bessarabia, among them: Farn folk
(For the people), the Zionist organ out of Minsk (1920), Unzer tsayt (Our time), Dos kooperative
vort (The cooperative word), Hasade
(The field), and similar Yiddish and Hebrew periodicals. He was last living in the state of Israel.
Source: David Tidhar, Entsiklopedyah leḥalutse hayishuv uvonav
(Encyclopedia of the pioneers and builders of the yishuv), vol. 3 (Tel Aviv,
1949), pp. 1144-45.
Yankev Kahan
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