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Dov Ber Slutski is Gorodishche's famous son. Born in the year 1877,
Slutski became a writer of short stories and a journalist. His early
stories were written in Hebrew, but Yiddish was the language of choice
for his later fiction.
Slutski was connected to the Hebrew and Yiddish press in Russia, Poland,
the United States (in New York City), and in Bueos Aires, Argentina.
He also contributed to the Soviet Communist press.
During World War II, in his sixties, Slutski found safety in Kazakhstan.
After The War, he moved to
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Birobidzhan, where he worked in a museum.
Stalinist minions arrested him in 1949, when he was seventy-two. He remained
in prison until his death in 1955 at age seventy-eight.
Dov Ber Slutski left behind an unfinished novel, Far Erd, Far Frayhayt
(For Land, For Freedom), about the Bar-Kokhba Revolt of the Second Century.
This novel was eventually published in 1991 in a Russian publication
(Sovetish Heymland).(source: Yivo Encyclopedia)
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