BUCHBINDER, NAHUM

BUCHBINDER, NAHUM (1895–?), Soviet historian. Buchbinder was born in Odessa. Son of the Yiddish writer Abraham Isaac Buchbinder, he studied from 1916 at the Seminary for Oriental Studies at Petrograd (Leningrad) and began his literary career in the Russian press in Odessa and Simferopol. Buchbinder was one of the first to join the Commissariat for Jewish Affairs after the Revolution and edited Yiddish Communist newspapers and other publications in Moscow and Minsk. He first wrote on Russian-Jewish literature (studies of lev levanda ) and afterward specialized in the history of the Jewish labor movement in Russia, on which he published articles in the learned journals Krasnaya letopis, Proletarskaya revolutsiya, and Yevreyskaya starina. His main work, Istoriya yevreyskogo rabochego dvizheniya v Rossii ("History of the Jewish Labor Movement in Russia," Leningrad, 1925; Yiddish translation, Vilna, 1931), chiefly dealing with the Bund, is based on material from the czarist police archives. Nothing is known of Buchbinder's fate after the 1930s. -BIBLIOGRAPHY: LNYL, 1 (1956), 262–3. (Yehuda Slutsky)