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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: 65. Chapters: Bessarabia Germans, Bessarabian Bulgarians, Bessarabian Jews, Lewis Milestone, Ben Gold, Alexandru Nicolschi, Horst Kohler, Ivan Kolev, William F. Friedman, Sholom Schwartzbard, Iona Yakir, Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi, Iosif Chi inevschi, Yankev Shternberg, Werthein Family, Lee Krasner, Hayim Greenberg, Meir Dizengoff, Bolhrad High School, History of the Jews in Moldova, Samuel Bronfman, Martin Abern, Robert Frimtzis, Iurie Leanc, Sam Zemurray, Mikhoel Felsenbaum, Gary Bertini, Georgi Todorov, Yehuda Leib Maimon, Boris Katz, Giora Feidman, Nachum Gutman, Idel Ianchelevici, Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan, Gregoire Michonze, Haia Lif i, Yvonne Jospa, Lev Berg, Alexander Frumkin, Avraham Granot, Aleksandar Malinov, Leonid Soybelman, Joseph Rabinowitz, Mona May Karff, Vasile Tarlev, Danail Nikolaev, Grigore Singurel, Ada Maimon, David Kessler, Dimitar Agura, Nadejda Grinfeld, Baruch Kamin, Zvi Guershoni, Abraham Baratz, David Solomon Eibenschutz, Jewish gauchos, Sacha Moldovan, Maurice Raizman, tefan Balmez, Robert Steinberg, Jacobo Fijman, Briceva, Tarutyne Raion, Ruslan Maynov, Dimitar Grekov, Nissan Spivak, Georgi Stamatov. 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 launched by anti-semitic Black Hundreds groups. The Golds emigrated to the United States in 1910, where 12-year-old Ben took a variety of jobs to help support his family, ...
