Tuesday 27 March 2018

MAKS STOLOVITSH


MAKS STOLOVITSH
            He was born in Vengrov (Węgrów), Poland.  In 1910 he made his way to Uruguay.  He settled in Montevideo and opened up a Yiddish publishing house.  In 1926 he began published the weekly newspaper Unzer lebn (Our life), the first Yiddish newspaper in the country, as a weekly for community and cultural issues.

Source: Zalmen Reysen, Leksikon, vol. 2.


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