Abraham Revusky (1889 – February 8, 1946) was a Russian Empire-born, US-based politician, author and editor. He was a contributing editor to the ''

Jewish Morning Journal ''The Jewish Morning Journal'' ( yi, דער מארגען זשורנאל , Der Morgen Zhurnal) was a Yiddish-language publication in New York from 1901 to 1971. Early years A politically conservative, Orthodox Jewish publisher, Jacob Saphirstein ...

'', and the author of several books.

Life

Revusky was born in 1889 in Smila, in the Cherkassky Uyezd of the

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate, r=Kievskaya guberniya; uk, Київська губернія, Kyivska huberniia (, ) was an administrative division of the Russian Empire from 1796 to 1919 and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic from 1919 to 1925. It wa ...

of the

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(present-day

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

). He grew up in

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and

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. Revusky joined the

Poale Zion Poale Zion (also spelled Poalei Tziyon or Poaley Syjon, meaning "Workers of Zion") was a movement of Marxist–Zionist Jewish workers founded in various cities of Poland, Europe and the Russian Empire in about the turn of the 20th century afte ...

party in Ukraine in the early 1910s. He moved to

Odessa Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrat ...

, where he was "an administrative member of the Jewish community" during the

Russian Revolution The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution that took place in the former Russian Empire which began during the First World War. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government ...

of 1917, and the Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the

Directorate of Ukraine The Directorate, or Directory () was a provisional collegiate revolutionary state committee of the Ukrainian People's Republic, initially formed on November 13–14, 1918 during a session of the Ukrainian National Union in rebellion against Sk ...

in 1918. He lived in Palestine, later known as Israel, from 1920 to 1921, and he was a co-founder of the

Histadrut Histadrut, or the General Organization of Workers in Israel, originally ( he, ההסתדרות הכללית של העובדים בארץ ישראל, ''HaHistadrut HaKlalit shel HaOvdim B'Eretz Yisrael''), is Israel's national trade union center ...

. He was expelled from

Mandatory Palestine Mandatory Palestine ( ar, فلسطين الانتدابية '; he, פָּלֶשְׂתִּינָה (א״י) ', where "E.Y." indicates ''’Eretz Yiśrā’ēl'', the Land of Israel) was a geopolitical entity established between 1920 and 1948 i ...

by the British government in 1921, and he lived in Berlin until 1924, when he emigrated to the United States. Revusky authored books in Yiddish and English, including a memoir of his time in Ukraine and a non-fiction book about Jews in Israel. He was also a contributing editor to the ''

''. Revusky died on February 8, 1946 at his residence in Yonkers, New York, at age 58, leaving an estate valued at $8,812.

Selected works

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References

External links

Abraham Revusky
on the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Revusky, Abraham 1889 births 1946 deaths People from Smila People from Cherkassky Uyezd Jews from the Russian Empire Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States People from Yonkers, New York Yiddish-language writers Jewish ministers of Ukraine Ashkenazi Jews in Mandatory Palestine Writers from New York (state) 20th-century American memoirists Poale Zion politicians