Famous People

Micha Yosef Berdichevsky (Polish Berdyczewski) was born in 1865 in Imperial Russian Ukraine and died in 1921 in Berlin. He lived in Dubova for a few years from the age of 7. He wrote extensively about the town. 

He wrote many essays and several books, collected into 20 volumes after his death. His major themes include Jewish legends and Jewish life in his contemporary world, especially tradition and integration. Some of his writing was unconventional for its time.

He often wrote under the surname Bin-Gorion. Major works translated into German:

• Der Born Judas (The Well of Judah), 6 volumes, 1916–23

• Die Sagen der Juden (The Legends of the Jews), 1914, 2nd edition 1919

• Sinai und Garizim: Über den Ursprung der Israelitischen Religion (Sinai and Gerizim: On the Origin of the Israelite Religion), 1926

Rachel Feigenberg was born in 1885 in Lyuban (in current Belarus) and died in 1972 in Tel Aviv, having lived mostly in Palestine/Israel from about 1925, and permanently from 1933. She moved to Odessa in 1900 and spent time in St. Petersburg, Lausanne, Warsaw, Paris, Kishinev, Bucharest, and various parts of Russian Ukraine.

She wrote essays, short stories, plays, and books of fiction and non-fiction, mostly in Yiddish, later in Hebrew. An account of her early years and her family has been translated into English by Jerrold Landau.

There are several versions of her major work about the pogroms in Dubova in the Russian civil war period 1917–20.