Значение слова "DIMANSTEIN, SIMON" найдено в 1 источнике

DIMANSTEIN, SIMON

найдено в "Dictionary of Jewish Biography"

(1886-1937)
   Russian com-munist. Born in Vitebsk, he studied in a Hasidic yeshivah. At the same time he studied Russian and joined the revolutionary movement. Later he was arrested, but managed to escape to Minsk and then to Riga but was arrested again in 1908 and sentenced to hard labour in Sibera. In 1913 he escaped and went to France. Later he returned to Russia where he became minister of labour in Lithuania. In 1918 he helped create the Yevsektsiya, the Jewish wing of the communist party, and became commissar of Jewish affairs. He also edited the Yiddish journal Der Ernes, and served as director of the Institute for National Minorities.


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