The Jewish Population of the Cities and Towns of Belorussia

Hillel Alexandrov

1928

Preliminary Remarks

Our study examines the changes that took place in the size of the Jewish population of Belorussia over the last three decades, based on data provided by two censuses: the general Russian census of 1897 and the city census of 1923. We are looking at only changes concerning the characteristics of Belorussia’s economic development…

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Creator Bio

Hillel Alexandrov

1850–1935

Hillel Alexandrov graduated from St. Petersburg University. Best known as a regional historian of Jewish Minsk and other Belorussian towns and shtetls, he published Research Your Shtetl in 1928 as a guide to Jewish regional ethnography and a justification of shtetl ethnography as instrumental for Sovietization. After 1933, the Stalinist regime restricted Alexandrov’s scholarship. He taught in Minsk and Leningrad.

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