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The Melting Pot: Russian Jewish New York: Case 2: Fighters: RSDRP

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Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman
Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman
Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman
Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman
Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman
Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman

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Title

Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman

Description

Rafail Abramovich (Rein), born in Dvinsk, Russia 1880, died in New York 1963. One of the leaders of the Menshevik fraction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party and Yiddish and Russian journalist. In 1918, he narrowly escaped the death sentence in Russia. He left Russia for Berlin in 1920 and later emigrated to the USA.

Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman concerns the mysterious murder of his son, Mark Rein, who was evidently killed by communist agents in Spain in 1937. Besides Emma Goldman, Abramovich corresponded with many socialist colleagues in an attempt to ascertain the circumstances of his son's death, including Abraham Cahan, Karl Kautskii, and Norman Thomas.

Creator

Abramovitch, Raphael R., 1880-
Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940

Date

July 28 - August 12 1937

Language

rus

Additional Item Metadata

Provenance

Gift of Dr. Sapir’s family, 1990

MODS

Key Date

1937-07-28 1937-08-12

Type of Date

ex

Place of Origin

Paris

Form/Genre

correspondence

Repository Name

nnc-rb

Subrepository

Bakhmeteff Archive of Russian and East European History and Culture

Language of Cataloging

eng

Digital Origin

rd

Collection

Boris Moiseevich Sapir Papers

Citation

Abramovitch, Raphael R., 1880- and Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940, “Correspondence between Rafail Abramovich and Emma Goldman,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed May 5, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/melting-pot/item/500.

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