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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 81. Chapters: Elie Wiesel, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ben Gold, Abraham Goldfaden, Itche Goldberg, Sholem Aleichem, Yosef Tunkel, Moshe Shalit, Moissaye Joseph Olgin, Charles Jaffe, Elias Schwarzfeld, Yankev Shternberg, Isaac Leib Peretz, Abraham Sutzkever, Melech Epstein, Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin, Sholem Asch, Isaac Steinberg, Gluckel of Hameln, Dovid Katz, Esther Kreitman, Mordechai Gebirtig, Leah Horowitz, Nahum Gergel, S. Ansky, Itzik Feffer, Micha Josef Berdyczewski, Yehiel De-Nur, Mendele Mocher Sforim, David Bergelson, H. Leivick, Elia Levita, Irena Klepfisz, David Edelstadt, Mikhoel Felsenbaum, Morris Rosenfeld, Chaim Grade, Eliezer Steinman, Itzhak Katzenelson, Zvi Kolitz, Der Nister, Miriam Hoffman, Jacob Glatstein, Eliakum Zunser, Peretz Hirschbein, Shira Gorshman, Joseph Opatoshu, Lawrence Bush, Josef Burg, Solomon Ettinger, Chava Rosenfarb, Hillel Zeitlin, Yitzhak Coren, Isaac Meir Weissenberg, Mark Warshawsky, Israel Isidor Elyashev, Moyshe Kulbak, Avrom Ber Gotlober, Israel Joshua Singer, Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner, Bella Rosenfeld, Moyshe Altman, Hirsh Glick, Rachel Korn, Yitzkhok Yoel Linetzky, Peretz Markish, Olexander Beyderman, Elye Gordon, Ryhor Reles, Natan Ilyich Zabara, Michael Lev, Israel Orenstein, Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi, Mordechai Strigler, Nachum Meir Sheikewitch. Excerpt: Benjamin Gold (1898-1985) was an American labor leader who was prosecuted for his communist political views under McCarthyism. He was president of the International Fur and Leather Workers Union from 1937 to 1955. Ben Gold was born September 8, 1898 to Israel and Sarah (Droll) Gold, Jews living in Bessarabia, a province of the Russian Empire. His father was a jeweler, active in the revolutionary movement and a member of the local Jewish self-defense corps, institutions which existed in many towns as a precaution against pogroms launch...