Paul Olberg (born: Hirsch Schmuschkowitz, 22 November 1878 – 4 May 1960) was a Latvian-born German-Swedish journalist and a

Menshevik The Mensheviks (russian: меньшевики́, from меньшинство 'minority') were one of the three dominant factions in the Russian socialist movement, the others being the Bolsheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries. The factions eme ...

. In 1917, after the

October Revolution The October Revolution,. officially known as the Great October Socialist Revolution. in the Soviet Union, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment ...

, went into exile in Berlin, where he lived for many years. He worked as a correspondent for Swedish

social democratic Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocating economic and social interventions to promote soci ...

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 The Jewish Labor Committee (JLC) is an American secular Jewish organization dedicated to promoting labor union interests in Jewish communities, and Jewish interests within unions. The organization is headquartered in New York City, with local/re ...

, 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 The International Jewish Labor Bund was a New York-based international Jewish socialist organization, based on the legacy of the General Jewish Labour Bund founded in the Russian empire in 1897 and the Polish Bund that was active in the interwar ...

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* ''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 Natur & Kultur is a Swedish publishing foundation with head office in Stockholm known for an extensive series of teaching materials. Its logotype is an apple tree. Overview The publishing house was founded in 1922 by Johan Hansson and his wif ...

, 1943 * ''Antisemitism i Sovjet'', Natur & Kultur, 1953

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Olberg, Paul 1878 births 1960 deaths People from Jēkabpils People from Courland Governorate Latvian Jews Bundists Mensheviks Latvian journalists Jewish socialists Latvian emigrants to Germany German emigrants to Sweden

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