Olgin biography

OLGIN, MOSHE J. (adopted name of Moses Joseph Novomisky ; 1878–1939), writer, editor, and translator. Born near Kiev, Olgin studied there. He joined a student revolutionary group which developed in the Kiev branch of the Jewish Labor Bund. After leaving Kiev University in 1904, he lived in Vilna where he joined the editorial board of the Bundist Arbeter Shtime and the legal publication Der Veker. At the end of 1906, Olgin left Russia and settled in Germany, where he studied at the University of Heidelberg. He returned to Russia in 1909 and became active as a teacher and lecturer. In 1913 Olgin moved to Vienna and became the coeditor of the Bundist weekly Di Tsayt which was published in St. Petersburg. In 1914 he went to New York, and became a staff member of the Jewish Daily Forward. After the split in the Jewish Socialist Federation in 1921, he joined the Workers' Party. He was one of the founders of the Communist Yiddish Daily Freiheit (later Morni

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Dr. M.J. Olgin
(Moshe Yosef Novomisky)
 

Born on 24 March 1878 in a village of Kiev Gubernia, Uman kreyz, Ukraine. His father was a manager in forests, earlier in Kiev Gubernia, afterwards in Volin, a Jew and a scholar, but caught up in Haskalah, had educated his son in Tenach and Gemora, but also didn't stop him from learning Russian and gave him tillgång to Hebrew Haskalah books, and even to Yiddish literature. At the age of fifteen, O. left his home and for several years and geknelt in villages with townsmen, later settling in Rogachev, Volin Gubernia, where he was given to study. In 1900 he entered into the Jewish facultat of the Kiev university, becoming enlisted in the lärling and revolutionary movement. In January 1901, together with several hundred students gave themselves as soldiers to participate in student unrest, published then his first feder-pruv • Abigail and Rebekah, in the historic and culturally diverse Mission Valley.  Prior to starting my own law practice in 2012, I served as the Executive Director/Managing Attorney of Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services (“DMRS”), a ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso and the largest provider of free and low-cost legal services to immigrants and refugees in El Paso, West Texas and Southern New Mexico. Under my leadership, DMRS received local and national recognition, including the El Paso Bar Association’s Pro Bono Award, the Bishop of El Paso’s Option for the Poor Award, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Daniel Levy Award. I was the Chair of the El Paso County Democratic Party for two terms, after having been elected in 2016 and again in 2018. As Chair of the local Democratic Party, my focus was on increasing voter turn-out, increasing voter registration, and ensuring that Democratic candidates were elected at th