Re: rubles in 1905-1910

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Thanks!  This is very helpful.  I was trying to figure how awful Mikhl 
Gelbart's salary was with the Itzik Zandberg theater troupe at 8 rubles 
a month, when he was 15.  

Lorele


Robert A. Rothstein wrote:

>Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
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>>Khaveyrim,
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>>Can any of you tell me how much 8 rubles was worth in Poland around
>>1905-1910?  Was that a good living for a month's work or not?
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>"[In Warsaw in 1905] in commercial schools, where salaries were the highest, a 
>teacher received from 60 to 120 rubles per year for each hour of instruction, 
>which gave,
>for 30 weekly hours, from 1800 to 3600 rubles per year... The salaries of 
>homeroom teachers [or class advisors, in Polish "dama klasowa"] in girls' 
>boarding schools were
>very low.  They earned from 10 to 45 rubles a month during the school year."   
>(Halina Kiepurska, _Inteligencja zawodowa Warszawy 1905-1907_ [Warsaw, 1967])
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>Bob Rothstein
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