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Reshin Aaron Bentzionovich (1890)

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SurnameReshin
NameAaron
PatronymBentzionovich
Birth year1890
Birth month3
Birth day25
Birth placeRiga
SexM

Reshin (Rechin) Aaron Bentzionovich (6 April / 25 March 1890, Riga) – engineer and public figure.

Aaron Reshin graduated from the Riga City Real School and then completed the full course of the mechanical department of the Riga Polytechnic Institute, specialising as a process engineer.

He was a member of the students’ mutual aid fund and of the “Ainikait” (“Unity”), which studied Jewish literature.

In 1919–1939 he taught mathematics, physics and cosmography at the Jewish secondary school of Riga. At the same time, from 1921 to 1926, he taught in the primary and secondary school of the Jewish Society for the Development of Art and Knowledge.

He was the only Jewish representative in the All-Latvian Teachers’ Union. From 1928 he served as chairman of the Jewish parents’ committee. Since 1937 he worked as a technical secretary in the Jewish society “Sadarbība Society” (formerly a polytechnic society). He was chairman of the Sholem Aleichem section of the all-Latvian society “Kinderfreund Society”.

On 11 September 1940, Aaron Reshin was granted the right to hold the position of a full secondary school teacher with the right to teach mechanical and technological subjects in secondary schools with Jewish and Russian languages of instruction.