Leon Bramson

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Leon Bramson (before 1918)
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Leon Bramson ( Russian Леонтий Моисеевич Брамсон ; born 1869 in Kaunas , Russian Empire ; died March 2, 1941 in Marseille ) was a Russian lawyer and organizer of Jewish self-help organizations and World ORT .

Life

Leon Bramson studied law in Moscow and practiced as a lawyer in Saint Petersburg . He was involved in the Jewish cultural organization, in social self-help organizations and in the Jewish emigration organization. In 1892 he was co-editor of a study of Russian literature about the Jews in Russia. In 1904 he was the editor of a study on the social and economic situation of Jews in Russia. Bramson was a co-founder of the "Jewish Democrats Party" and was able to win a seat in the first Duma in 1906 through electoral agreements between the General Jewish Workers 'Union and the Trudowiki in the Kaunas constituency , in which he joined the workers' faction. In the philanthropic Jewish organization ORT (“Society for the Promotion of Agricultural and Handicraft Professions Among the Jews in Russia”) founded in 1880, he was one of the reformers who, under the slogan “From charity to support the productive work of the Jews!”, Self-help and wanted to organize solidarity assistance. Under this program adopted in 1909 and its leadership, the activities of the ORT grew by leaps and bounds until 1914.

During the First World War, Bramson organized aid for the Jews displaced from the frontline areas. During the Russian Revolution in 1917, ORT's assets were lost.

Bramson emigrated to Berlin in 1920 , where World ORT was founded, and became its president in 1923. After the handover of power to the National Socialists, World ORT moved to Paris in autumn 1933 . After visiting the Jewish settlements in Palestine in 1934, Bramson changed from anti-Zionist to Zionist . During the German occupation of northern France in 1940, he moved with the rest of the World ORT organization, of which he was still president, from Paris to the non-occupied part of France in Marseille, where he died.

The "Lycée Professionnel Léon Bramson ORT" founded in 1960 in Marseille and the "Bramson ORT College" founded in 1979 in New York City are named after him.

See also

literature

  • Article Leon Bramson in Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 4, Col. 1293 f.
  • Alexander Ivanov: LOCATION. In: Dan Diner (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture (EJGK). Volume 4: Ly-Po. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2013, ISBN 978-3-476-02504-3 , pp. 444-449.
  • David Lvovitch: Léon Bramson et l'Union LOCATION . LOCATION Français, Paris 1950

Web links

Commons : Leon Bramson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

notes

  1. ↑ z. B. December 12, 1922 in Berlin: a meeting of the "United Hunger Relief Committee" of ORT and OZE (later OSE)
personal data
SURNAME Bramson, Leon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bramson, Léon; Bramson, Leontii Moiseevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ORT organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaunas
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1941
Place of death Marseille