Херсон   ~   KehilaLinks   ~   Kherson
Search Kherson KL
To visualize the dropdown menu you have to activate Javascript. Goto the INDEX
Samuil Labarsky

Samuil Lubarsky

Agronomist

Lubarsky was born in Aleksandria, Kherson Gubernia, Ukraine in 1878. He attended the Kiev Polytechnic Institute, where he studied Agronomy. After graduating in 1907, he taught at the Jewish Agricultural School in Novo-Poltavka.

Fifteen years later, Lubarsky became the Moscow Deputy Director of Agro-Joint, an organization that provided financial and technical help to the Jewish Agricultural Settlement Project in the Soviet Union. Agro-Joint played such a significant role in the establishment of the resettlement program, that it often rivaled the Soviet State. This may have been the source of the Soviet State's animosity toward the Agro-Joint and its members.

Lubarsky was arrested by the NKVD, convicted of spying for Germany as well as for the United States. He was also charged with plotting to assassinate Soviet leaders. After a "laughably" brief trial lasting just a few minutes, without council and without

witnesses, he was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out the same day – 1 September 1938. Samuil Lubarsky left behind a daughter and a son, Lea and Abram; his wife, Zinaida Iosovna Boguslavskaia, had been murdered in a pogrom in December 1918.

To learn more about Samuil Lubarsky, read the following linked articles on the Joint Distribution Commmittee website and on the Novopoltavka Kehilalink:

In Memorium

Lubarsky Family

There is also the following article by M. Beizer, "Samuil Lubarsky: Portrait of an Outstanding Agronomist," East European Jewish Affairs, Vol. 34, # 1, summer 2004, pp. 91-103.


Share this page by email

Share this page
by email

Last Modified: 03-05-2017
webmaster: richard L baum

Get Started with this Site | compiled by Sylvia & Charles Walowitz | Site Index | Kherson on Ukraine SIG | JewishGen Home page
This page is hosted at no cost to the public by JewishGen, Inc., a non-profit corporation. If you feel there is a benefit to you in accessing this site, your [JewishGen-erosity] is appreciated. Designed for 1024x768 resolution - Copyright © 2014 Charles & Sylvia Walowitz- All Rights Reserved.
Shtetl Logo