- Grusenberg, Oscar
- (1866-1940)Russian lawyer. He was a St Petersburg trial lawyer and championed political and civil liberties. He acted for the defence in the Beilis blood libel case of 1913.
Dictionary of Jewish Biography. Dan Cohn-Sherbok.
Grusenberg, Oscar
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DNEPROPETROVSK — (Yekaterinoslav until 1926), city and industrial center situated on the River Dnieper in Ukraine. Jews first settled there shortly after its foundation in 1778, and in 1804 the town was included in the pale of settlement . The community numbered… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
