Semyon Dimanstein ((1886(uncertain)- August 1938) was a Soviet state activist, publisher, theorist of national issue in the USSR, one of the founders of the Soviet Oriental studies. He was considered to a representative of Soviet Jews. Dimanstein was born in Sebezh, Pskov oblast in a Jewish family of a trader. He studied in a Chabad yeshiva where eighteen-year Semyon ordained his rabbinate. He suffered of poverty and homelessness. Wikipedia
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