Paul Olberg Explained

Paul Olberg (born: Hirsch Schmuschkowitz, 22 November 1878 – 4 May 1960) was a Latvian-born German-Swedish journalist and a Menshevik. In 1917, after the October Revolution, went into exile in Berlin, where he lived for many years. He worked as a correspondent for Swedish social democratic 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.^[1]

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, 1943
• Antisemitism i Sovjet, Natur & Kultur, 1953

Further reading

• Book: Lost Worlds of Labour: Paul Olberg, the Jewish Labour Bund, and Menshevik Socialism . Blomqvist, Håkan . The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender . 2014 . Södertörn University . Götz, Norbert . Huddinge . 978-91-87843-00-6 . Södertörn academic studies, 60 . 1650-433X . 139–172 .
• Book: Enerud, Per . Den farligaste av flyktingar: Paul Olberg – antinazist, antikommunist och dissident i folkhemmet . Carlssons . Stockholm . 2017 . 978-91-7331-817-4 . Swedish .

Notes and References

1. Book: Hertz, Jacob Sholem. Der Bund in bilder, 1897-1957. Unser Tsayṭ. New York. 1958. Yiddish, English.