Moissaye Olgin
| Moissaye Joseph Olgin | |
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| Born |
Moissaye Joseph Novominsky March 24, 1878 |
| Died | November 22, 1939 (aged 61) |
| Residence | Manhattan, New York City |
| Nationality | Russian; American |
| Alma mater | University of Kiev, University of Heidelberg, Columbia University |
| Occupation | Writer, journalist, translator |
| Years active | 1910–1939 |
| Home town | Kiev |
| Political party | Workers Party |
Moissaye Joseph Olgin (1878–1939) was a Russian-born writer, journalist, and translator in the early 20th century. He began his career writing for the Jewish press in support of the Russian Revolution in 1910. During the First World War, he moved to the United States in 1915, settling in New York City, where he continued his career in Jewish journalism. Much of his work was in support of communism, and he was a founding member of the Workers Party. In 1922, he founded The Morning Freiheit, and served as its editor until his death in 1939.
Moissaye Joseph Olgin was born on March 24, 1878 in Buki, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire) to Chaim Aaron Novominsky and Tsipe (Gelman) Novominsky, both of whom were of ethnic Jewish origins. His father worked as a lumber camp employee.
Olgin received a traditional education in Hebrew. After a short period of self-study, he began his studies at the University of Kiev in 1900.
He was sympathetic to the causes of the Russian Revolution, and first became active in the underground revolutionary movement during his studies at the University of Kiev. His writings for Jewish and revolutionary publications earned him some fame among the many Russian Jews, who were heavily oppressed by the government of Tsar Nicholas II. He took part in a Jewish revolutionary student group known as "Freiheit" (Freedom).
In 1901 Olgin was elected chairman of the Students Central Committee. The tsarist regime ordered his arrest in April 1903 on a charge of organizing Jewish self-defense groups against anticipated pogroms.
In 1904, Olgin left the University of Kiev and went to Vilno as a member of the Vilno Committee of the Jewish Bund. There he was arrested but released on bail. He then became a member of the editorial board of the Arbeiter Stimme (Labor's Voice). He was the author of all the proclamations issued by the Central Committee of the Bund during the Revolution of 1905 while at the same time he prepared literary compositions for the illegal Jewish press. While editing newspapers and working with these underground organizations he also wrote books, short stories and literary essays.
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