NOKHUM RUBINSHTEYN (1902-1938)
He was a
bibliographer, born in Poland in a working-class family. He moved to Byelorussia from Poland in 1920
and settled in Minsk. He studied at the
Minsk pedagogical technical school. He
became a bibliographer working in the Y. L. Perets Library in Minsk, and around
1930 he became the director of Yiddish division of Byelorussia’s Lenin State Library. He was purged in 1937, and little is known of
his subsequent fate. He contributed to
bibliographic work appearing in: Shtern
(Star), Tsaytshrift (Periodical), Biblyologisher zamlbukh (Bibliological
collection), and Afn virtshaftlekhn front
(On the agricultural front). Other
important writings: Biblyotek-arbet,
kurtser hantbukh far yidishe biblyotek-tuer (Library work, a short handbook
for library workers) (Moscow: Central Publ., 1927), 127 pp.; “Sholem-aleykhem-iberzetsungen
in sovetnfarband” (Sholem-Aleichem
translations in the Soviet Union), Tsaytshrift
5 (1931), pp. 88-91; Yidish-vaysrusisher
tashn-verterbukh (Yiddish-Byelorussian pocket dictionary), with Shmuel-Nokhum
Plavnik (Minsk: Byelorussian Academy of Sciences, 1932), 218 pp.; Dos yidishe bukh in sovetnfarband (The
Yiddish book in the Soviet Union) for the years 1932-1935 (Minsk: State library
and bibliographic institute of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic,
1933-1936), 4 vols.—his name was omitted from this work; “Di literarishe-kinstlerishe
bikher-produktsye af yidish in 1934” (The literary and artistic book production
in Yiddish for 1934), Shtern (Minsk)
5-6 (1935), pp. 224-30. He also worked
for years on a listing of Yiddish literature for the nineteenth century, but he
was unable to successfully complete it.
Sources: Chone Shmeruk, comp., Pirsumim yehudiim babrit-hamoatsot, 1917-1961 (Jewish publications
in the Soviet Union, 1917-1961) (Jerusalem, 1961), index; Sovetish heymland (Moscow) 12 (1972), p. 181.
Dr. Avrom Grinboym
[Additional information from: Chaim Beider, Leksikon fun yidishe shrayber in
ratn-farband (Biographical dictionary of Yiddish writers in the Soviet
Union), ed. Boris Sandler and Gennady Estraikh (New York: Congress for Jewish
Culture, Inc., 2011), pp. 359-60.]
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