How People Live in the Soviet Union

M. Osherovich

1933

Signs of the New Life in the Decline of the Old Life

Signs of the new life and of the new “construction” in Trostinets can be discerned, strange as it may sound, in the destruction of the synagogues and study houses that had once functioned there. Their demise can be seen as a sign of the emergence of the new way of life.

[ . . . ] Trostinets has…

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M. Osherovich

1888–1949

Mendel Osherovich was born in Trostinets-Podolsk, Ukraine, and settled in New York City in 1910. There he wrote for Yiddish periodicals and joined the staff of Forverts in 1914. He worked there until his death. He was a prolific writer and translator and held leadership positions with the Federation of Ukrainian Jews, the Committee to Protect the Jews in Ukraine, and the Yiddish PEN club.

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