Rafail Abramovich
Rafail Abramowitsch (pseudonym of Rafael Rein, born July 21, 1880 in Dünaburg , Vitebsk Governorate , Russian Empire ; † November 4, 1963 in New York City ) was a Russian Bundist and Menshevik who published in Yiddish , Russian, German and English .
Life
Rafael Rein had joined the General Jewish Workers' Union of Lithuania, Poland and Russia in 1902 and had to repeatedly go into exile, since 1905 he had the pseudonym Abramowitsch. As a leading Menshevik , he had to leave Russia with Julius Martov after the October Revolution of 1920 . He later became editor-in-chief of the magazine "Sozialistitscheski westnik" (Socialist Courier) in Berlin . Among other things, he published several German-language writings on the Soviet Union at Dietz Verlag. In Paris in the 1930s he was a member of the Dubnow Fund and employee of the Yiddish Algemeyne entsyklopedye . In 1940 he had to flee from Paris to the USA.
His son Mark Rein , a member of the New Beginning group , was murdered by the GPU in Spain in 1937 .
Fonts (selection)
- Leyenbukh tsu the geshikhṭe fun Yiśroel ( reader on the history of Israel). Wostok , Berlin 1923
- The terror against the socialist parties in Russia and Georgia . JW Dietz, Berlin 1925
- Changes in the Bolshevik dictatorship . JW Dietz, Berlin 1931
Web links
- Literature by and about Rafail Abramowitsch in the catalog of the German National Library
- English short biography
- Abramovich, Rafail in the YIVO Encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ↑ John F. Oppenheimer (Red.) And a .: Lexicon of Judaism. 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh u. a. 1971, ISBN 3-570-05964-2 , col. 23.
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| SURNAME | Abramovich, Rafail |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rein, Rafael Abramowitsch (real name); Abramovitch, Raphael; Abramovitz, Raphael; Abramovich, Raffael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian Bundist and Menshevik |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dünaburg , today Daugavpils |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1963 |
| Place of death | New York City |