Ira Gollobin

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Ira Gollobin
civil rights
and immigration attorney

Ira Gollobin (July 18, 1911 – April 4, 2008)

civil rights and immigration attorney who was involved for over seven decades in civil liberties, immigration, and extradition cases. Gollobin wrote extensively on the civil liberties
and civil rights of both the native- and foreign-born.

Personal life and education

Gollobin was born in

New York Bar Examination
in June 1933.

Gollobin was married to Esther Adler until her death on February 11, 1981. They had two daughters who grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He later married Ruth Axelbank Baharis, the one-time head of the Midwest ACPFB.[2] Gollobin died on April 4, 2008.[1]

Career

Gollobin had a long career as a civil rights attorney who focused on immigration law. He worked for the

American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born from 1936-1982 including some time as their general counsel.[3] He served on the National Coalition for Haitian Refugees and helped those who were under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.[4] His papers, including a number of case files, are held by NYU and the New York Public Library.[5][6]

Gollobin was a founding member of the

German writers admitted to the United States and from 1938 through 1940 helped refugees from the Spanish Civil War. Gollobin was counsel to the Transport Workers Union of America (1939–1940) thereby securing citizenship for almost 1,500 subway workers. He continued citizenship matters for the Greater New York Industrial Union Council (CIO) from 1940-1942.[citation needed
]

Military service

Drafted into the

U.S. Army in November 1942 as a Staff Sergeant, Gollobin was assigned to the Judge Advocate General Staff Section in the Philippines. In January 1946 he was one of the principal organizers of a GI demobilization demonstration movement in Manila and was honorably discharged in March, 1946.[7][8]

Anti-HUAC efforts

In the late 1940s until 1966, Gollobin's practice expanded as the need for legal representation for citizens and non-citizens alike called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC;

HUAC) and the Senate International Security Committee
.

In 1948 before HUAC, Gollobin provided counsel to Victor Perlo, whom Elizabeth Bentley and Whittaker Chambers alleged had led (Bentley's "Perlo Group") and partaken in (Chambers's "Ware Group") a communist "apparatus" in Washington made up of Federal officials.[9] (NLG fellow Carol Weiss King represented J. Peters in related hearings.)

Gollobin fought for 16 years (1951–1967), all the way to the Supreme Court of the United States, before victory was achieved in Hong Hai Chew v. Colding [344 U.S. 590, 595 (1953)].[citation needed]

Books

In 1986, Gollobin published Dialectical Materialism: Its Laws, Categories and Practice, a book which he had started in 1950. It is an exposition and history of dialectical materialism.[10] He is also the author of a memoir, Winds of Change: An Immigration Lawyer’s Perspective on Fifty Years.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b "Paid Notice: Deaths GOLLOBIN, IRA". Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  2. ^ "Ruth Gollobin Obituary (2008) - New York, NY - New York Times". Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  3. ^ Anderson, Jervis (1974-07-07). "A Question of Where You Come From". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  4. ^ "In Memoriam: Ira Gollobin: Visionary Architect of Change". www.aila.org. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  5. ^ "Ira Gollobin Papers: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids". findingaids.library.nyu.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  6. ^ "archives.nypl.org -- Ira Gollobin papers". archives.nypl.org. Retrieved 2024-01-11.
  7. JSTOR 3022995
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  8. hdl:11299/150015
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  9. ^ "Hearings Regarding Communist Espionage in the United States Government". Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  10. ISSN 0036-8237
    .
  11. ^ von Sternberg, Mark R. (2008-05-28). "In Memoriam: Ira Gollobin: Visionary Architect of Change". American Immigration Lawyers Association. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
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