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Image from Zikhroynes fun di Shturmishe Yorn, Bielsk, 1898-1907, (see citation), courtesy of the Yiddish Book Center Digital Library
Shtern, Berl
May 20, 1884–
He was born in Bielsk. He attended religious elementary school and yeshiva. He was active in the Polish Socialist Party (PPS). From 1907 he was living in New York and later in Newark.
He was the author of Zikhroynes fun di Shturmishe Yorn, Bielsk, 1898-1907 (Memoirs of the Stormy Years, Bielsk, 1898-1907) (Newark: Workmen’s Circle, 1954), 187 pp.
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