Jewish

Anti-semitism and National Socialism - Moishe Postone

yoshomon — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:58:21 +0000

Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
By Moishe Postone

Zadov, Lev Nikolaevich aka Zinkovsky aka Leva aka Levka the Bandit 1893-1938

Battlescarred — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:09:39 +0000

Lev Zadov was born on April 11th 1893 in the small Jewish farming settlement of Veselaya in southern Ukraine. Around 1898-1900 his family fell on hard times and moved to Yuzovka, in the Donetsk region, where his father worked as a coachman.

Greenberg, Yiddelle 1909-194?

Ed — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:18:17 +0000

A salute to a comrade,

Gorelik, Grigorii aka Anatolii, 1889-1956

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000

Grigorii Gorelik, usually known as Anatolii Gorelik was born into a Jewish family in 1889. He became an anarchist in 1904, at the age of fourteen. He was active in the Ukraine, and was arrested several times by the Tsarist police.

Wess, Woolf, 1861-1946

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:17:00 +0000

“He was the most modest of men” - Rudolf Rocker
Woolf Wess was born to a Jewish family in Vilkomar (or Ukmerge) near Kovno in Lithuania in 1861.

He was the son of a Hasidic master baker and at age of 12 was apprenticed to a shoemaker.

Yarchuk, Efim, 1882 or 1886-1937

Battlescarred — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:50:30 +0000

Yarchuk, Efim Zakharovich aka Khaim Zakharev - Also rendered as Yarchook, Yartchuk, Iarchuk etc.

“a man who enjoyed exceptional influence among the sailors and workers and whose idealism and devotion are matters of historic record” - My Disillusionment in Russia. Emma Goldman

Mollie Steimer, 1897-1980 - Paul Avrich

catch — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:10:08 +0000

Mollie Steimer: An Anarchist Life
By Paul Avrich

A review of Joe Jacob's 'Out of the Ghetto' - Al Richardson

Ret Marut — Sun, 20 May 2007 00:04:39 +0000

Originally published in Vol. 5, No. 1 of the Trotskyist journal Revolutionary History.
Reprinted in Echanges et Mouvement no 80/81, 1996.

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Joe Jacobs - Out of the Ghetto; Phoenix Press, London, 1991

(Reviewed by Al Richardson)

Muehsam, Erich, 1878-1934

Steven. — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:51:36 +0000

Erich Muehsam was born in Berlin in 1878 into a fairly well-to-do Jewish family. Soon after his family moved to Luebeck in north Germany where his father worked as a pharmacist (in fact the pharmacy is still there).

1880-1945: Yiddish-speaking libertarians in France

Steven. — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:04:18 +0000

In the pletzl (Marais) and in Montmartre in Paris (pictured, above), Jewish anarchists had a real influence. In 1907, police reports indicated the presence of about 450 anarcho-communists, an enormous figure if one realises that the immigrant Jewish population living in Paris at the time was about 20,000.