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Levenberg Shneur (1907)

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SurnameLevenberg
NameShneur
Birth year1907
Birth placeKursk
SexM

Levenberg (Lewenberg)Shneur (Schneur) (1907, Kursk) — public figure and journalist.

In Riga from 1921. For many years Shneur Lewenberg served as chairman of the student society Hashakhar. One of the leaders of the progressive student movement and the leader of socialist-Zionist students, representing them in the Student Council. A member of the Executive Committee of the League for Workers’ Rights in Eretz Israel in Latvia. From 1930 he was a member of the Central Committee of the united socialist-Zionist party, and from February 1933 a journalist. He wrote on various issues of public life and cultural matters, was editor of the party organ Arbets Folk, a board member of the Friends of the Jewish Scientific Institute in Latvia, and a member of the Jewish literary association Alef.