Moissei Aaronowitsch Krol

Moissei Aaronowitsch Krol

Moissei Aaronowitsch Krol ( Russian Моисей Ааронович Кроль ; * 13 April ^July / 25 April  1862 ^greg. In Zhitomir ; † December 31, 1942 in Nice ) was a Russian ethnologist , publicist and lawyer .

Life

Krol graduated from the Faculty of Law of the New Russian University in Odessa . He joined the popular will . In February 1887 he was arrested for state crimes and exiled to Novoselenginsk near Gussinoosjorsk in Buryatia at the end of 1888 . In 1893 he moved to Verkhneudinsk and worked there in the archive . During his stay in Transbaikalia he studied the legal and economic life of the Buryats and wrote a number of ethnological articles that appeared on the news of the East Siberian Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society .

In 1895 Krol returned to European Russia. In 1897 he took part in AN Kulomsin's expedition to investigate land ownership and land management in Transbaikalia and wrote the Kulomsin Commission materials in 10 volumes: Forms of Land Use in Transbaikalia . In it he described the development from the most primitive methods to the modern methods and the close relationship between land use and the economy based on his quantitative statistical evaluations. Further statistical work by Krol dealt with the role of the railways and waterways in freight traffic in the Volga region ( St. Petersburg 1902) and the craft of the Jews in western Russia (in the collection of materials on the economic situation of the Jews in Russia, Volume 1) . He published his essays in many different Russian magazines.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Krol joined the Social Revolutionaries and worked in the Jewish national movement. After the February Revolution of 1917 , he joined the Peasant Union and became a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly . When the Siberian Duma was founded on July 20, 1917 in Tomsk , he was admitted as a member of the Russian Constituent Assembly to participate with voting rights. When Admiral Kolchak seized power in Siberia after the October Revolution in the Russian Civil War , Krol left the country for fear of arrest.

In 1919 Krol settled in Harbin , worked as a lawyer and participated in the city's literary life . He became chairman of the Harbin Area Committee of Social Revolutionaries and organized, with others, the Harbin People's University, where he lectured on legal history. In mid-February 1925 he traveled to Paris via Shanghai and continued to work as a lawyer and journalist. He worked with the Social Revolutionaries as well as in the Aid Committee for Jewish Refugees and in the Federation of Jewish Societies in Paris. 1927–1930 he was active in the Society for Jewish Crafts and Agricultural Work (ORT) and in 1931 became vice-chairman of the ORT's Paris office. In 1928 he was with editor and leading employees in New York published magazine The future . From 1931 he gave lectures at the Jewish People's University. In February 1933 he took part in the initiative group for a Russian-Jewish intelligentsia, which in 1937 became an association. In 1938 he appeared with a report in the Bessarabian country team. After the occupation of Paris by the Wehrmacht in 1941 during World War II , Krol lived in Nice. The planned emigration to the USA was prevented by his illness.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Кроль Моисей Ааронович (Кроль Михаил Афанасьевич) . In: Отечественные архивы . No. 1 , 1999, p. 29 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Демин Э. В .: Бурятия: Календарь знаменательных и памятных дат на 2002 год. 140 лет со дня рождения этнографа, исследователя Забайкалья М. А. Кроля . Нац. б-ка Респ. Бурятия, Ulan-Ude 2001.
3. ↑ Калашников Н. С .: Моисей Аронович Кроль (Некролог) . In: ЗаС . No. 12 , 1943, pp. 31-35 .
4. ↑ Жуковская Наталья Львовна: М. А. Кроль и Бурятия . Altaica, 1998.
5. ↑ Ди цукунфт (accessed February 28, 2017).