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He trained to become a teacher.
Then he chose to pave streets.
Born in Minsk, in present-day Belarus, in 1862, Shmuel Hurvits trained as a teacher but left the field because he valued manual work. He paved streets, carved wood and set type before becoming a Yiddish journalist and editor.
An unexpected route
to a life in print.
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