Creator Bio
Naum Abramovich Bukhbinder
1895–1940s
Naum Abramovich Bukhbinder was born in Odessa and studied in St. Petersburg at Lesgaft University, the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, and the Institute for Higher Jewish Studies. After the October Revolution he helped to found Bolshevik Yiddish periodicals, and wrote in both Yiddish and Russian about Jewish working-class history and the Jewish revolutionary movement. He was killed during the Stalinist purges.
Content by Naum Abramovich Bukhbinder
Primary Source
A History of the Jewish Labor Movement in Russia
This excerpt from a Yiddish work on the Jewish labor movement in 19th-century Russia highlights issues affecting women, children, and students.