Rayski, Adam

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Name (Hebrew)
ראיסקי, אדם
Name (Latin)
Rayski, Adam
Other forms of name
Rajgrodski, Abraham
ריסקי, אדם
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 19689849
Wikidata: Q2823996
Library of congress: n 85178202
Sources of Information
  • French Wikipedia WWW site, Mar. 18, 2008(Adam Rayski; b. 1913, Białystok; d. Mar. 11, 2008, Paris; French resistance worker and historian)
  • The choice of the Jews under Vichy, c2005:t.p. (Adam Rayski) p. following index (left Poland in 1932 for Paris, where he became a journalist for the Naye Prese, a Yiddish leftist newspaper; served as national secretary of the Jewish section of the French Communist Party; was head of the Union des Juifs pour la résistance et l'entraide)
  • Times online WWW site, Apr. 18, 2008(Adam Rayski; b. Abraham Rajgrodski, Aug. 14, 1913; d. Mar. 12, 2008; communist, Jewish activist, politician, spy, journalist, and wartime agent who became disenchanted with Marxism)
  • His Nos illusions perdues, c1985:t.p. (Adam Rayski) p. 4 cover (journaliste et militant communiste)
  • The choice of the Jews under Vichy, c2005:t.p. (Adam Rayski) p. following index (left Poland in 1932 for Paris, where he became a journalist for the Naye Prese, a Yiddish leftist newspaper; served as national secretary of the Jewish section of the French Communist Party; was head of the Union des Juifs pour la resistance et l'entraide)

Wikipedia description:

Adam Rayski (14 August 1913 – 11 March 2008) was a Franco-Polish intellectual best remembered for his involvement with the French resistance.

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