Gershon Dua-Bogen ( yi, גרשון דוא-באָגען, b. 1892, d. 1948), alias 'Admoni', was a Polish communist. He was an active militant of the

Communist Party of Poland The interwar Communist Party of Poland ( pl, Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP) was a communist party active in Poland during the Second Polish Republic. It resulted from a December 1918 merger of the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland a ...

(KPP) and of the

Polish Workers' Party The Polish Workers' Party ( pl, Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR) was a communist party in Poland from 1942 to 1948. It was founded as a reconstitution of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP) and merged with the Polish Socialist Party (PPS) in 194 ...

(PPR). He emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine and became the general secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. He was expelled from the territory by the British for his political activities. During the

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, he served as a political commissar in the base of the International Brigades in

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Bibliography

* Dua-Bogen, Gershon, and Mirski, Michal. אויף די שפורן פון גבורה, ''Oyf di shpurn fun gvure''. Steven Spielberg digital Yiddish library, no. 07087. Amherst:

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, 2000. (in

Yiddish Yiddish (, or , ''yidish'' or ''idish'', , ; , ''Yidish-Taytsh'', ) is a West Germanic language historically spoken by Ashkenazi Jews. It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe, providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with a ve ...

)

References

1892 births 1948 deaths Jewish socialists Communist Party of Poland politicians Polish Workers' Party politicians International Brigades personnel Socialist Workers Party (Mandatory Palestine) politicians Jewish anti-fascists Polish emigrants to Mandatory Palestine {{Poland-politician-stub