R. Abramovič Papers

Period (1904-) 1922-1939
Total size   1.4 m.
Consultation Not restricted

Biography

Abramovič Rafail A. Pseudonym of Rafail Abramovic Rein; born in Dvinsk, Russia 1880, died in New York 1963; had to leave Russia in 1902 because of his activities for the 'Bund'; returned in 1904; one of the leaders of the Menshevik faction of the Rossijskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Rabočaja Partija (RSDRP); arrested in 1911 and exiled, later escaped abroad; returned to Russia in 1917; arrested in 1918 and narrowly escaped the death sentence through the intervention of Friedrich Adler and others; left Russia for Berlin in 1920; member of the Menshevik Delegation Abroad; edited Socialističeskij Vestnik with Julij Martov; delegate of the Menshevik party to the Labour and Socialist International (LSI/SAI) until 1940; emigrated to the USA; one of the organizers of the Union for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia in 1949.

Content

Correspondence by Abramovič, partly in Yiddish, with Friedrich Adler 1929-1931, 1933-1936, Alexander Berkman 1933-1934, Fedor Dan 1933-1936, Karl Kautsky 1934-1935, Otto Leichter 1934, Emile Vandervelde 1934 and others; conference papers of and notes on meetings of the Bureau and of the Executive of the LSI 1929-1939; documents of the LSI/SAI Colonial Commission 1926-1928 and Minorities Commission 1928-1929; file relating to the attitude of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party and of the LSI/SAI towards the pogroms in the Ukraine from 1918 to 1920, 1926-1928; file relating to the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière 1933-1939; file relating to Unser Gedank c. 1931; manuscripts of articles; notes; personal documents; press clippings from the Jewish Daily Forward 1926-1932; miscellanea.

Papers of Abramovič' son Mark Rein (1909-1937): correspondence 1931-1936, Der rote Winkel. Gruppenzeitung der SAJ Berlin Westen II 1927-1929, and personal documents.

Papers of Wulf Drabkin: correspondence and personal documents 1904-1916.

Processing information

List made by Hermien van Veen in 1995, 1998

Alternate Form of Material

14 security microfilms.