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Our new Briv funem arkhiv section will feature short pieces about interesting, significant, funny, or surprising archival finds.

An Extract from Yakov Leshchinsky’s Di ekonomishe lage fun Yidn in Poyln.

Robert Brym is S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Author, statistician and sociologist specializing in Jewish demography and economic history.