HIRSH SHUBIN (b. 1868)
He was
born in Polotsk, Russian empire, the son of a merchant and bookseller. At age twenty-one, he wrote a storybook, Di shtifmuter, oder roze di krasovke, an
interesante roman (The stepmother, or Rosa the beauty, an interesting novel
[about what transpired in Polotsk]) (Vilna: Rozenkrants and Shriftzetser, 1890),
32 pp., later edition (1927). He was to
have authored several further storybooks, but his father forbade him from doing
so. Until 1914 he was a bookseller, and
from 1915 he was a rabbi’s assistant in the city of Trok (Trakai).
Source: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 4.
Berl Cohen
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