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nicole.y.de.c@gmail.com nicole.y.de.c@gmail.com

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Hello genners
In Yad Vashem website appears Lina Girshgorn with the profession "kustar".
Someone knows what does it means?
Nicole Yossefi.
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Roger Lustig GerSIG.Research@verizon.net

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May 21, 2016, 11:54:04 AM5/21/16
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Nicole:

What country? When? What language is the record in?

Roger Lustig
Princeton, NJ USA

nicole...@gmail.com wrote:
> In Yad Vashem website appears Lina Girshgorn with the profession "kustar".
> Someone knows what does it means?

Alexander Sharon a.sharon@shaw.ca

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May 21, 2016, 11:55:24 AM5/21/16
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Nicole Yossefi wrote:
In Yad Vashem website appears Lina Girshgorn with the profession "kustar".
Someone knows what does it means?

Nicole,

Russian Kustar' translates as craftsman

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Alexander Sharon
Calgary, AB

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May 21, 2016, 12:02:34 PM5/21/16
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See the definition of "kustar" here:
Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia: Reviving the Kustar Art Industries
http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=art_books
(MODERATOR: http://tinyurl.com/hk2t72m )
...at the close of the nineteenth century the kustar or peasant handicraftsman...
kustar crafts were turned into high-quality commercial manufactories through a...

Mitch Collier

> Nicole Yossefi <nicole...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In Yad Vashem website appears Lina Girshgorn with the profession "kustar"
> Someone knows what does it means?
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