The Jews of Soviet Russia

Abraham J. Zhitnik

1925

Chaim the Coachman Becomes a Farmer

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[ . . . ] [T]here was a lecture in the big union hall on the topic of Soviet food policy. The wife of our protagonist also wanted to go and listen. You didn’t need an admission ticket, after all. In Russia such things don’t cost any money. So why should she stay at home and wait for her husband to come back…
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Abraham J. Zhitnik

1890–1964

Abraham J. (Avrom-Yankev) Zhitnik grew up in a Hasidic family near Zhitomir, Ukraine. A rabbi, orator, and Zionist, he wrote and edited in Kiev, supporting Jewish laborers. After the Russian Revolution, Zhitnik settled in the United States, where he served as a rabbi (known as Z. Abrams) in Chicago.

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