Memoirs of a Socialist-Revolutionary

Menahem Mendel Rosenbaum

1921–1924

Volume I. Chapter 1

[ . . . ] In the summer of 1903 I traveled to Russia, where I was to meet with the heads of the socialist revolutionary groups in various cities in south Russia and on the Volga. One of my principal tasks was to find people who could take the illegal literature which I would smuggle into Russia from Galicia. I was helped in this…

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Menahem Mendel Rosenbaum

1869–1954

Raised in a Hasidic family, Menahem Mendel Rosenbaum was influenced by the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequently worked with Lenin. Ultimately imprisoned, he made his way to the United States and Israel, where he was a founder of Kibbutz Na’an.

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