Semyon Dimanstein

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Semyon (Shimen) Markovich Dimanshtein (

Soviet Jews
.

Early years

Dimanstein was born in

smicha from Rabbi Eliyahu Ḥayim Meisel [pl; he] of Lodz, Rabbi Shlomo HaKohen, and Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzinski of Vilna. He suffered from poverty and homelessness
, and soon abandoned his religious upbringing in favor of revolutionary activities.

Pre-Revolution Socialist activities

In 1904 Dimanstein became a member of the

Zionist parties. After the range of the government repression in 1908, he was sentenced to life settlement in the Irkutsk region. Dimanstein escaped and left the Russian Empire for France until the March Revolution
1917.

Party career

At that time Russia was at

People's Commissariat of Nationalities. He served for a time as spokesperson for Commissar Joseph Stalin, and edited and contributed many articles to the Commissariat's journal, Zhizn' Natsional'nostei ("Life of the Nationalities"). He was also founder and editor of the Communist Yiddish newspaper "Di Varhayt," later renamed Der Emes ("The Truth"). He was one of the founders and member of the Committee for the Struggle against Antisemitism within the Soviet government [2]

In 1920 Dimanstein was sent to

CP(b)U and as a member of the Ukraine Orgburo
.

In 1924 he returned to Moscow and was appointed Deputy Head of Agitprop of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Dimanstein was an editor of New East and Revolution and Nationality ("Революция и национальности"). He was a steady supporter of Stalin's policies. Dimanstein was a founding member of KOMZET, a government agency created in 1924 to promote Jewish agricultural work. His last appointment was as head of the Central Committee of OZET and editor of the OZET's journal, "Tribuna."

Dimanstein advocated the establishment of the

collectivization of Jewish settlements in Jewish national districts of Southern Ukraine and Northern Crimea. In 1935 Dimanstein was the editor of a propaganda book entitled Yidn in FSSR (Jews in the Soviet Union). From October 1936, Dimanstein was one of the editors of Forpost, a Yiddish journal in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast's capital city of Birobidzhan
.

Death

On 21 February 1938, Dimanstein was arrested. He received a

death sentence on 20 August 1938 and was executed for belonging to a counterrevolutionary terrorist organization.[3] He was rehabilitated posthumously
on 13 August 1955, two years after the death of Stalin.

Works

  • Bam Likht fun Komunistisher Ideal, 1919
  • Кто такие меньшевики, 1922
  • Против укрощения марксизма: К нашим философским спорам, 1923
  • Мировая война, 1924
  • Прошлое и настоящее : Жизнь народов С.С.С.Р., 1924
  • Борьба ленинизма с люксембургианством: Национально-колониальный вопрос, 1933

References

  1. ISBN 978-5-04-014283-5
    .
  2. ^ Brendan McGeever. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution. — Cambridge University Press, 2019. — p.p. 247.
  3. ISBN 978-5-04-463205-9
    .

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