http://libcom.org/tags/lithuania libcom.org tags en http://libcom.org/history/wess-woolf <p><span style="font-style:italic">“He was the most modest of men” </span>- Rudolf Rocker<br /> Woolf Wess was born to a Jewish family in Vilkomar (or Ukmerge) near Kovno in Lithuania in 1861. </p> <p>He was the son of a Hasidic master baker and at age of 12 was apprenticed to a shoemaker.</p> <p><a href="http://libcom.org/history/wess-woolf">read more</a></p> http://libcom.org/history/wess-woolf#comments UK Lithuania Nick Heath Socialist League anarchists biographies Hackney Jewish London Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000 Battlescarred 19250 at http://libcom.org