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September 12, 2013
A high holiday visit to the tombstones of Jewish radicals, from the International Workers Order/Jewish People’s Fraternal Organization cemetery on Long Island.
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Paul (Peysakh) Novick, longtime editor of the Morning Freiheit.[/caption]
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Morris U. Schappes, editor of Jewish Currents for more than 40 years, and his wife Sonya[/caption]
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Chaim Zhitlowsky, Yiddishist and social theorist[/caption]
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Yuri Suhl, poet, writer, author of “They Fought Back,” and his wife Isabelle[/caption]
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Isaac Raboy, novelist and story writer, 1882-1944[/caption]
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Sam Pevzner, longtime head of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, and his wife Faye.[/caption]
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Elsie Suller, longtime director of Camp Kinderland, and her husband Chaim Suller, longtime managing editor of the Morning Freiheit[/caption]
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Martin Birnbaum, Yiddish poet, shule teacher[/caption]
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Clara Lemlich, leader of the Uprising of the 20,000, lifelong labor activist[/caption]
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Moissaye Olgin, founding editor of the Morning Freiheit[/caption]
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Jerry Trauber, who created the great majority of these tombstones.[/caption]
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Bessie Sayet, grandmother of JC editor Lawrence Bush, who based his novel BESSIE: A Novel of Love and Revolution, on her life.[/caption]
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Entranceway to the IWO burying ground.[/caption]
Paul (Peysakh) Novick, longtime editor of the Morning Freiheit.[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_20965” align=“alignleft” width=“300”]
Morris U. Schappes, editor of Jewish Currents for more than 40 years, and his wife Sonya[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_20966” align=“aligncenter” width=“225”]
Chaim Zhitlowsky, Yiddishist and social theorist[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_20968” align=“alignleft” width=“225”]
Yuri Suhl, poet, writer, author of “They Fought Back,” and his wife Isabelle[/caption]
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Isaac Raboy, novelist and story writer, 1882-1944[/caption]
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Sam Pevzner, longtime head of the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, and his wife Faye.[/caption]
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Elsie Suller, longtime director of Camp Kinderland, and her husband Chaim Suller, longtime managing editor of the Morning Freiheit[/caption]
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Martin Birnbaum, Yiddish poet, shule teacher[/caption]
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Clara Lemlich, leader of the Uprising of the 20,000, lifelong labor activist[/caption]
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Moissaye Olgin, founding editor of the Morning Freiheit[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_20971” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”]
Jerry Trauber, who created the great majority of these tombstones.[/caption]
[caption id=“attachment_20991” align=“alignleft” width=“225”]
Bessie Sayet, grandmother of JC editor Lawrence Bush, who based his novel BESSIE: A Novel of Love and Revolution, on her life.[/caption]
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Entranceway to the IWO burying ground.[/caption]
