Moshe Gutman

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Moshe (Mikhail) Gutman (sometimes spelled Guttmann; Belarusian: Мойша Гутман) was a Jewish politician and Jewish activist who was a member minister without portfolio in the short-lived independent Belarusian Democratic Republic (1918–1919).

In 1917 he was elected a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada.[citation needed] At the end of 1917 he was elected Member of the Executive Committee of the Belarusian National Council (temporary quasi-government of Belarus) as a representative of the Jewish minority.[citation needed]

Following the announcement of Belarus's independence in March 1918, he represented the Jewish minority in the Belarusian government. He also drafted the first constitution of the Belarusian People's Republic.[citation needed]


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