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Nochum Minc

Established Bialystok’s first silk factories with Sender Bloch

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... Nochum Minc and Sender Bloch establish the first silk factories in Bialystok. ...

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... The first silk factories in Bialystok opened in about 1850. To be sure, they were small, with weaving looms that could be operated only by hand. This manual labor was difficult and tiring. Jewish weavers labored day and night for starvation wages. In 1850, two Bialystoker Jews, Nochum Minc and Sender Bloch, were the first silk manufacturers in Bialystok to institute a steam- powered loom. Later on, they utilized electric machines, which made the manufacturing process much easier. Jews in Bialystok developed and modernized many other industries as well — tailoring, tanning, furriery, masonry, shoemaking and tobacco manufacturing. ...

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