Max Lazerson

Max Lazerson
מתתיהו לזרסון
Professor Lazerson, April 1936
Born	Max Matatyahu Laserson (1887-02-01)February 1, 1887 Jelgava, Russian Empire (present day Latvia)
Died	November 29, 1951(1951-11-29) (aged 64) New York City, New York, USA
Nationality	Latvian (until 1939) Mandatory Palestine (from 1939)
Other names	Max Laserson, Max M. Laserson, Maksis Lazersons, Larsons, M. Ya. (pseudonym)
Occupation(s)	Politician, jurist, philosopher
Years active	1917-1940s

Maksis "Max" Lazerson (

Biography

Lazerson was born in

From 1906 to 1910, he studied at the Faculty of Law in the University of Saint Petersburg and graduated with honors. In 1916 he was appointed a lecturer at this university. In 1917, after February revolution, he joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Provisional Government.^[4] In 1920 he left the Soviet Union and returned to Latvia, where he became involved with the Ceire Cion party. He taught at the School of Economics and the Russian university in Riga.

In 1922 to 1925 and from 1928 to 1931 he was a delegate in

In March 1934, Lazerson visited Mandatory Palestine to attend a meeting of the Zionist General Council.^[11] Following the Latvian coup d'état of Ulmanis on May 15, 1934, Lazerson was banned as a leftist, at the same time as abolishing cultural autonomy for Jews.^[12] In November 1934, Larsson was released from custody,^[13] having admitted to leave Latvia.^[14] After his release he immigrated^[15] to Mandatory Palestine,^[16] where he arrived in January 1935. In 1935 he was one of the founders of the Higher School of Law and Economics in Tel Aviv,^[17] where he gave lectures in general jurisprudence and economics.^[18]

Later, he stayed in the US, worked in Justice Department, and then went on to serve as a professor of public international law at Columbia University.^[19][20]

Lazerson died on 29 November 1951, aged 64 in New York^[21]

Bibliography

• Laserson, Max M (1950). The American impact on Russia: diplomatic and ideological, 1784-1917. New York: Macmillan Company.
  OCLC
   35720365.
• Laserson, Max M (1945). Russia and the western world; the place of the Soviet union in the comity of nations,. New York: Macmillan Co.
  OCLC
   491858.
• Laserson, Max M (1943). The development of Soviet foreign policy in Europe,. New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education.
  OCLC
   1361944.
• Laserson, Max M (1937). On the Mandate; documents, statements, laws and judgments relating to and arising from the Mandate for Palestine. Tel-Aviv: "Igereth".
  OCLC
   933974.
• Laserson, Max M (1933). Die russische Rechtsphilosophie (in German). Berlin-Grunewald: W. Rothschild.
  OCLC
   16693454.
• Laserson, Max M (1927). Staat, Souveränität und Minorität (in German). Riga: B. Lamey.
  OCLC
   6653092.

References

Further reading

• Критико-биографический словарь русских писателей и ученых (от начала русской образованности до наших дней). СПб, 1889—1914.

External links

• Max Lazerson at LibraryThing
• Max M. Laserson Papers, 1900-1951 at Columbia University Libraries