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.
Content by Hillel Alexandrov
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The Jewish Population of the Cities and Towns of Belorussia
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…