Tarbut school was expanded and now is a public school. Demographics Famous residents Svetlana Yakir, Russian writer Elazar Kochva, Israeli herpetologist Mordechai Goldenberg, Hebrew writer and Yiddish poet Yenta Mash, Yiddish writer Pedro and Mauricio Sprinberg, Yiddish journalists References "Encyclopaedia Judaica" Keter Publishing House Jerusalem Ltd. 1972 External links Russian-language site Villages of Drochia District Shtetls Former Jewish agricultural colonies of Bessarabia Holocaust locations in Moldova