Morris Swadesh
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Morris Swadesh was an American linguist who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian J
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The history of the Jews in Bessarabia, a historical region in Eastern Europe, dates back hundreds of years.
Morris Swadesh
…who specialized in comparative and historical linguistics, and developed his mature career at UNAM in Mexico. Swadesh was born in Massachusetts to Bessarabian Jewish immigrant parents. He completed bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Chicago, studying under Edward Sapir, and then followed Sapir to…
Jewish man in Chișinău (1900)
Torah scrolls presented by the Jewish community of Chișinău to Nicholas II, 1914
The Chișinău Choral Synagogue, 1913.
Victims of pogrom in Chișinău, 1903