Lejb Strongin

Lejb Strongin ( Russian Лев Израилевич Стронгин / Transcription: Lev Israilewitsch Strongin; scientific transliteration Lev Izrailevič Strongin ; born 1896 in Minsk ; died 1968 in Moscow ) was a Soviet publicist and publisher .

Life

From 1939 he was director of the Soviet publishing house for Jewish literature, the newspaper and book publisher Der Emes (Дер Эмес) in Moscow , which published works in Yiddish and Russian and which published the Yiddish communist newspaper Der Emes (Дер Эмес) .

Strongin worked as a typesetter at a young age , later joined the Communist Party and worked in Belarus , where he was director of the Belarusian State Publishing House from 1924 . Strongin was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAK / JAFK) and editor of the Ejnikajt newspaper . He was arrested in 1949 and released after Stalin's death.

His predecessor in publishing The Emes , Moshe Litvakov (1875-1939), who in the Party of Bolsheviks was for the interests of the Jewish (ie, Yiddish) culture in charge, had been executed.

The black book about the Holocaust and the crimes of the Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union should originally have been published by Der Emes .

literature

Shimon Redlich : War, the Holocaust and Stalinism. 2013 ( partial online view )
Wassili Grossman , Ilja Ehrenburg (ed.): The Black Book - The Genocide of the Soviet Jews. Rowohlt-Verlag, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-498-01655-5 (editor of the German edition: Arno Lustiger )
Arno Lustiger : Rotbuch: Stalin and the Jews. The tragic story of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee and the Soviet Jews. Development of Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2002 (first Berlin 1998)

Web links

References and comments

↑ Lustiger (2002: 427); Honest (2013: 32).
↑ On the person, cf. Litvakov Moyshe - YIVO Encyclopedia & muse.jhu.edu: Moshe Livakov .
^ The black book on the criminal mass extermination of the Jews by the fascist German conquerors in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union and in the fascist extermination camps of Poland during the war of 1941–1945 . Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.). German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger : Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994. ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .
↑ See the afterword by Irina Ehrenburg (1911–1997), the daughter of Ilja Ehrenburg , on the German edition of the Black Book .

personal data
SURNAME	Strongin, Lejb
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Strongin, Lev Izrailevič; Стронгин, Лев Израилевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Soviet publicist and publisher; Head of the publishing house Der Emes
DATE OF BIRTH	1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minsk
DATE OF DEATH	1968
Place of death	Moscow

[1] Lustiger (2002: 427); Honest (2013: 32).

[2] On the person, cf. Litvakov Moyshe - YIVO Encyclopedia & muse.jhu.edu: Moshe Livakov .

[3] The black book on the criminal mass extermination of the Jews by the fascist German conquerors in the temporarily occupied territories of the Soviet Union and in the fascist extermination camps of Poland during the war of 1941–1945 . Ilja Ehrenburg , Wassili Grossman (ed.). German translation of the complete version, edited by Arno Lustiger : Rowohlt, Reinbek 1994. ISBN 3-498-01655-5 .

[4] See the afterword by Irina Ehrenburg (1911–1997), the daughter of Ilja Ehrenburg , on the German edition of the Black Book .