Abraham Revusky

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| birth_place = Smila, Cherkassky Uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = February 8, 1946

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Abraham Revusky (1889 – February 8, 1946) was a Russian-born, US-based politician, author and editor. He was a contributing editor to the Jewish Morning Journal, and the author of several books.

Life

Revusky was born in 1889 in Smila, in the Cherkassky Uyezd of the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine).{{cite web |title=Abraham Revusky |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/revusky-abraham |website=Jewish Virtual Library |publisher=American–Israeli Cooperative Enterprise |accessdate=April 5, 2019}} He grew up in Russia and Austria.

Revusky joined the Poale Zion party in Ukraine in the early 1910s. He moved to Odessa, where he was "an administrative member of the Jewish community" during the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the Ukrainian minister of Jewish Affairs for the Directorate of Ukraine in 1918. He lived in Palestine, later known as Israel, from 1920 to 1921, and he was a co-founder of the Histadrut. He was expelled from Mandatory Palestine by the British government in 1921, and he lived in Berlin until 1924, when he emigrated to the United States.

Revusky authored books in Yiddish and English, including a memoir of his time in Ukraine and a non-fiction book about Jews in Israel. He was also a contributing editor to the Jewish Morning Journal.{{cite news |title=Abraham Revusky: Jewish Journal editor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/409815216/?terms=%22Abraham%2BRevusky%22 |accessdate=April 5, 2019 |work=The Daily News |location=New York City |date=February 9, 1946|page=19|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}{{cite news |title=Palestine Authority Dead |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/277339918/?terms=%22Abraham%2BRevusky%22 |accessdate=April 5, 2019 |work=Star-Gazette |location=Elmire, New York |date=February 9, 1946|page=2|via=Newspapers.com|url-access=registration }}

Revusky died on February 8, 1946, at his residence in Yonkers, New York, at age 58,{{cite news |title=Abraham Revusky; Contributing Editor for Jewish Morning Journal Dies at 58 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/02/09/archives/abraham-revusky-contributing-editor-for-jewish-morning-journal-dies.html |accessdate=April 6, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=February 9, 1946}} leaving an estate valued at $8,812.{{cite news |title=Revusky Estate Appraised |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102003978/abraham-revusky-1889-1946/ |work=The Herald Statesman |date=August 5, 1947 |location=Yonkers, NY |page=14 |accessdate=May 17, 2022 |via=Newspapers.com}} {{Open access}}

Selected works

{{cite book |last1=Revusky |first1=Abraham |title=In di shṿere ṭeg oyf Uḳrayne |date=1924 |publisher=Jüdischer Literarischer Verlag |location=Berlin|oclc=428439713}}
{{cite book |last1=Revusky |first1=Abraham |last2=Revusky |first2=Sam |last3=Kantorowitz. |first3=Moishe |title=Wrenching Times in Ukraine: Memoir of a Jewish Minister |date=1998 |publisher=Yksuver Publishing |location=St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada |isbn=9780968175118|oclc=42882767}}
{{cite book |last1=Revusky |first1=Abraham |title=Jews in Palestine |date=1935 |publisher=King |location=London, U.K.|oclc=978097093}}{{Cite journal|last=Kahn|first=Alfred E.|date=1946|title=Review of Jews in Palestine; The Palestine Year Book, 5706. Vol. i|journal=Jewish Social Studies|volume=8|issue=3|pages=207–210|jstor=4464729|issn=0021-6704}}
{{cite book |last1=Revusky |first1=Abraham |title=The Histadrut (General Federation of Jewish Labor in Palestine): A Labor Commonwealth in the Making |date=1938 |publisher=League for labor Palestine |location=New York City|oclc=692715}}
{{cite book |last1=Revusky |first1=Abraham |title=Yidn in Eretz-Yisroel |date=1947 |publisher=Sharon |location=New York City| oclc=7413582}} (Published posthumously)