Leon Kasman Explained

Leon Kasman
Birth Place:Łódź, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
(today Poland)
Birth Date:28 October 1905
Office:Chief editor of Trybuna Ludu
Termstart:8 September 1944
Termend:December 1953
Death Place:Warsaw, Poland
Resting Place:Powązki Military Cemetery
Party:Polish United Worker's Party
Citizenship:Poland
Nationality:Polish Jewish

Leon Kasman, pseudonyms "Adam," "Bolek," "Janowski," "Zygmunt"[1] (born 28 October 1905 in Łódź; died 12 July 1984 in Warsaw) was a Polish communist journalist and politician of Jewish descent.[2] [3] Head of the propaganda and agitation department of the Central Committee of the Polish Workers' Party.[4]

He was a first editor-in-chief of the Trybuna Ludu daily, deputy to the Sejm of the Polish People's Republic. As a result of the conflicts within the communist party, Kasman resigned from this function in December 1953.[5] He was among the “Puławianie"[6] faction in PZPR. Leon Kasman died in 1984 and was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery in Warsaw.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Prazmowska, A.. Civil War in Poland 1942-1948. 2004-07-29. Springer. 9780230504882. en.
  2. Book: Naimark, Norman. The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In Eastern Europe, 1944-1949. 2018-02-07. Routledge. 9780429976216. en.
  3. Book: Schatz, Jaff. The Generation: The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Communists of Poland. 1991. University of California Press. 9780520071360. en.
  4. Book: Gerrits, André. The Myth of Jewish Communism: A Historical Interpretation. 2009. Peter Lang. 9789052014654. en.
  5. Book: Herf, Jeffrey. Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Historical Perspective: Convergence and Divergence. 2013-10-31. Routledge. 9781317983484. en.
  6. Book: Polin. 2009. Basil Blackwell for the Institute for Polish-Jewish Studies. 9781904113362. en.