Dobin, Shimon
DOBIN, SHIMON
DOBIN, SHIMON (Shimoni ; 1869–1944), writer, educator, and socialist in Russia. Born in Bobr, Belorussia, he joined the *Ḥibat Zion movement in Odessa as a young man. With B. *Borochov he became an early member of the *Po'alei Zion in Yekaterinoslav, and was a delegate to the Minsk convention of Russian Zionists in 1902. He continued to play an active role in Zionist workers' movements for some time, and was a founder of *Vozrozhdeniye and the *Zionist Socialist Workers' Party. In 1906–07 he edited Folksshtimme, the organ of the *Jewish Socialist Workers' Party. After imprisonment and exile for his political activities he joined the *Bund in Kiev in 1911. After the October Revolution he became active in "Ozet" and educational institutions, and contributed articles on Yiddish literature and language. He died in Sverdlovsk.
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Eynikeyt (June 8, 1944), 2; lnyl, 2 (1958), 430–1; Iggerot B. Katznelson (1961), 364–6; Geshikhte fun Bund, 2 (1962), index; ibid., 3 (1966), index.
[Moshe Mishkinsky]