The philanthropic organization ORT (abbreviation of Obshchestvo remeslennogo i zemledel’cheskogo truda sredi yevreev v Rossii, The Society for the Trades and Agricultural Labor among Jews in Russia) was founded in St. Petersburg in 1880 with the aim of supporting Russian Jews in commercial and agricultural careers by means of competent education and training. Behind the foundation was t…
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Ivanov, Alexander, “ORT”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 02 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0605>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20210312
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