Complex sentence: Srul Bronshtein was born into a baker's family in the Bessarabian village of Ştefăneşti (currently in Ştefan Vodă district, Moldova), the region was at the time a southwestern province of Imperial Russia.
Split into simpler sentences: Srul Bronshtein was born into a baker's family in the Bessarabian village of Ştefăneşti (currently in Ştefan Vodă district, Moldova). The region of Bessarabia was at the time a southwestern province of Imperial Russia.