Noah David Bloch

Noakh-Dovid BLOKH's Factory

The highly educated son of Sender and Malka-Reizl BLOKH – Noakh-Dovid BLOKH – founded a small spinning and fabric finishing factory in partnership with his brother Bontshe (Ben-Tzion] BLOKH on the Nowi. When the factory went bankrupt, Noakh-Dovid BLOKH fled to Vienna. There he became a co-worker at Vienna German newspapers and died there. His brother later again operated a small spinning factory. Here we have described the first large, but unsuccessful attempts by the Bialystoker Jewish aristocratic wealthy men to establish self-contained

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textile factories. This required a knowledge of the trade and many years of experience, such as the German manufacturers had.