Creator Bio
Pinchas Kon
d. 1941
Historian Pinchas Kon lived and studied in Vilna from the year 1919. He ran a law firm and published essays in the Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew, German, and Russian presses, writing primarily about the Jewish community in nineteenth-century Vilna. Kon worked with YIVO and was a member of the Association of Jewish Writers and Journalists in Poland. He was arrested by the Nazis in 1941.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Jewish Women in the Midwifery School of Vilna University
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, women did not participate in the free professions regularly because at that time institutes of higher education had not yet opened their doors to them. The…