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Gurevich Alexander (1882)

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SurnameGurevich
NameAlexander
Birth year1882
Birth month4
Birth day26
Birth placeVelizh
SexM

Gurevich (Gurewitsch) Alexander (26 April 1882, Velizh) — community activist and benefactor.

Alexander Gurevich was actively engaged in Jewish communal and philanthropic work in both Kharkiv and Riga.

From 1916 to 1920, he served as a member of the Kharkiv Committee for Aid to Jewish Homeless Persons and was a board member of the city's central synagogue. He also participated in the Committee for Aid to Pogrom Victims.

In 1921, he returned to Riga and became a member of the board of the Jewish educational society Tushia. He served as treasurer and parent committee member at the Ivrit Gymnasium and contributed to a number of Russian-language newspapers in Riga, including Rizhskaya Mysl’, Pribaltiyskiy Kray, and Narodnaya Mysl’.