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Gurevich, Lev (Yehoshua Arieh)

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Lev Gurevich (Yehoshua Arieh) (1876-1943) was a jurist, Zionist and community activist in Leningrad. He graduated in law from the University of St. Petersburg. From 1919 he was a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization in Russia and in 1924 he became its chairman. In 1925 Lev Gurevich was among the founders of the Leningrad religious Jewish community, and headed it until 1929 when he was arrested and sent to camps. He died in Siberian exile in February 1943. Lev Gurevitch's private collection contains extensive correspondence between him and his family members in the Soviet Union, Israel, the United Kingdom and France --

Reference Code
P288
Dates
1936-1990
Consists of
34 files.
Languages
Russian; English; Hebrew;
Title Gurevich, Lev (Yehoshua Arieh).
Contributors ZinaidaGurevich
TseraAbramsky
IakovAbramsky
Zionist Organization (Russia)
Host Item Gurevich, Lev (Yehoshua Arieh) - Private Collection
Level of Description Fonds Record
Biographical summary Lev Gurevich (Yehoshua Arieh) (1876-1943) received a Jewish religious education from his grandfather at home. He attended a gymnasium in St. Petersburg, and graduated in law from the University of St. Petersburg. Lev Gurevich was a Zionist activist and in 1919 became a member of the Central Committee of the Zionist Organization in Russia. In 1924 he became chairman of the organization. In 1925, under the guise of scientific research, Lev Gurevich published a Zionist work "Syria, Eretz-Israel, Mesopotamia" in a Soviet publishing house in Leningrad. He was also one of the founders of the Jewish religious community in Leningrad and headed it until 1929. One of Gurevich’s initiatives was an attempt to convene a conference of religious Jewish communities. Although the authorities approved the initiative, this attempt failed in the end. In 1929, Lev Gurevich was arrested and charged with combining his position in the Jewish religious community with his post as a Soviet official. He was sentenced to forced labor in the camps, and died in exile in Siberia in 1943.
Ownership history In 2011, Dr. Shula Abramsky, the granddaughter of Lev and Zinaida Gurevich, transferred the collection to the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem.
Language Note Russian
some English
some Hebrew
National Library system number 990042346000205171
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