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Paul Olberg (born: Hirsch Schmuschkowitz, 22 November 1878 – 4 May 1960) was a Latvian-born German-Swedish journalist and a 
Olberg was Scandinavian representative of the Jewish Labor Committee, and headed the JLC's Stockholm office; from 1945, he coordinated the JLC's postwar services to refugees in Scandinavia.
In 1957 Olberg was a member of the coordinating committee of the
Paul Olberg (born: Hirsch Schmuschkowitz, 22 November 1878 – 4 May 1960) was a Latvian-born German-Swedish journalist and a Menshevik
The Mensheviks ('the Minority') were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903. Mensheviks held more moderate and reformist ...
. In 1917, after the October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Historiography in the Soviet Union, Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was the second of Russian Revolution, two r ...
, went into exile in Berlin, where he lived for many years. He worked as a correspondent for Swedish social democratic
Social democracy is a Social philosophy, social, Economic ideology, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achi ...
newspapers. In 1933, he fled to Stockholm; that year, he became Secretary of the Stockholm-based Socialist Rescue Committee for German Refugees.
Olberg was Scandinavian representative of the Jewish Labor Committee, and headed the JLC's Stockholm office; from 1945, he coordinated the JLC's postwar services to refugees in Scandinavia.
In 1957 Olberg was a member of the coordinating committee of the International Jewish Labor Bund
The International Jewish Labor Bund (ILJB) was a New York-based international Jewish socialist organization, based on the legacy of the General Jewish Labour Bund founded in the Russian empire in 1897 and the Polish Bund that was active in the i ...
.
Bibliography
* ''Briefe aus Sowjet-Russland'', 1919 * ''Die Bauernrevolution in Russland: Die alte und die neue Politik Sowjet-Russlands'', 1922 * ''Die Tragödie des Baltikums: Die Annexion der freien Republiken Estland, Lettland und Litauen'', 1941 * ''Det moderna Egypten i det andra världskriget'',Natur & Kultur
Natur & Kultur is a Swedish publishing foundation with its head office in Stockholm. It is known for an extensive series of teaching materials, and its logotype is an apple tree.
Overview
The publishing house was founded in 1922 by Johan H ...
, 1943
* ''Antisemitism i Sovjet'', Natur & Kultur, 1953
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1878 births 1960 deaths People from Jēkabpils People from Jaunjelgava county Latvian Jews Bundists Mensheviks Latvian journalists Jewish socialists Latvian emigrants to Germany German emigrants to Sweden {{Europe-journalist-stub