Samuel Efimovič Estrin Papers
Period 1933-1975
Total size 1 m.
Consultation Not restricted
Biography
Full name: Samuel Efimovič Estrin; born in Orsa, Russia 1893, died in the USA 1976; social democrat and Menshevik; revolutionary student in St. Petersburg 1916-May 1917; studied law at the universities of Saratov 1917-1919 and Moscow 1919-1922; in Saratov active in the Rossijskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Rabočaja Partija (RSDRP), where he met his wife Lilija Gincberg (Lola Estrin); president of the League of Socialist Students in Saratov; contributed to the journal Proletarij Povolž'ja Saratov 1918; emigrated to Berlin in 1923, to Paris in 1933; worked for the International Federation of Trade Unions; emigrated to the USA in 1939; in New York member of the group Novyj Put'; worked for the Jewish Labor Committee from 1940; was delegate to several socialist congresses; member of the Dissent discussion group; contributed to the left journal Dissent.
Content
Notebook 1933-1938; manuscript of memoirs n.d. (in Russian); correspondence with Friedrich Adler, Julius Braunthal, Fedor Dan, Boris Sapir and others and the Société des Amis de Léon Blum 1942-1975 (partly photocopies); correspondence and documents concerning the International Socialist Circle, New York 1952-1971; documents on Novyj Mir 1939-1941 (photocopies); files concerning Lidija Dan 1947-1963; correspondence, leaflets, pamphlets, circulars and bulletins concerning the Socialist Party, USA 1957-1971; circulars and bulletins concerning the Democratic Organizing Committee and the Social Democrats, USA 1973; album of a meeting in memory of Friedrich Adler containing photographs of the speakers, minutes of the meeting, autographs of the participants and some leaflets, given to Samuel Estrin by Kathia Adler 1960.
NB. Originals of the photocopies at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Arrangement
This inventory replaces a list (of 0.10 m) by J.R. van der Leeuw from 1973.
Processing information
Inventory by Krista van Loon in 2009