Avrom (Abram) Revutsky (1889, Smela - 1946, Yonkers ) - Ukrainian-Jewish political and statesman, journalist, Yiddish writer.
| Avrom Revutsky | |||||||
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| Ukrainian Revutsky Avram | |||||||
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| Head of the government | Vladimir Moiseevich Chekhovsky Sergey Stepanovich Ostapenko | ||||||
| Predecessor | Moyshe (Moses) Zilberfarb (Minister of the Central Council) Yaakov Zeev Wolf Lack-Bertholdi (Minister of the Ukrainian State ) | ||||||
| Successor | Pinhos Red | ||||||
| Birth | February 12, 1889 Smela , Cherkasy district , Kiev province , Russian Empire | ||||||
| Death | 1946 Yonkers , USA | ||||||
| The consignment | Poalei Zion | ||||||
| Education | Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Novorossiysk University in Odessa | ||||||
Biography
Born in Smela in the family of Rabbi Shmil (Samuel) Revutsky and Hava (Eve) Levina [2] . Soon after his birth, the family moved to Palestine . He studied at a primary Hebrew school in Rehovot . Then, after the family returned to Russia, at the gymnasium in Akkerman (1907). He studied at Vilna and at the Higher Technical School in Vienna . In 1916 he graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Department of Novorossiysk University in Odessa .
He worked in the editorial office of the newspaper Odessa Leaf. Under the influence of his father, as well as Bera Borokhov , in 1905 he joined the Jewish Social Democratic Party of the left, Poalei Zion (party nickname Shlimovich). Since 1913 - a member of the Bureau of the World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers, as an emissary of which he visited the Balkan countries on the eve of World War I.
During the Central Rada, he was a friend of the Minister of Jewish Affairs, in 1918 he became the Minister of Jewish Affairs of the UPR . At the Labor Congress on January 22-28, 1919 in Kiev from the Jewish parties participated Moses Rafes and Revutsky. While Rafes spoke in favor of Soviet power, Revutsky called the support of its independence by the socialist parties in Ukraine. Protesting against a wave of pogroms that the Directory did not try to prevent, he resigned and moved to Palestine. Due to sharp criticism of the British credentials, in 1922 he was expelled, first settled in Berlin , and in 1924 he moved to the United States , where he collaborated in Jewish magazines.
Author of memoirs “In difficult days in Ukraine. Notes of the Jewish Minister. "
Artwork
- “In difficult days in Ukraine” ( Yiddish אין די שווערע טעג אויף אוקראינע ). (Berlin, 1924)
- Avrom Revutsky. Wrenching times in Ukraine: memoir of a Jewish minister / translation by Sam Revusky and Moishe Kantorowitz. - St. John's, NFLD. : Yksuver Pub., 1998. - ISBN 0-9681751-1-2 .
- "Jews in Palestine" (English, N.J., 1935; French, Paris, 1936) was repeatedly reprinted (the fourth edition was in 1947).
Notes
- ↑ Director of the UPR (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment October 9, 2012. Archived April 19, 2013.
- ↑ Russian Jewish Encyclopedia
Links
- Revutsky Avraham - article from the Electronic Jewish Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies in 10 volumes / Vladimir Mikhailovich Kubiyovich . - Paris; New York: Young Life, 1954-1989.