Tsemakh Kopelson

Title: Tsemakh Kopelson

Inclusive Dates: 1897-1923

ID: RG 1403

Extent Information

7.5"; 2 7.5"

Creators

Kopelson, Tsemakh
Kuskova, Ekaterina
Trachtenberg, Sofia
Trachtenberg, Sonia

Administrative/Biographical History

Tsemakh Kopelson (1869, Vilna - 1933, Moscow) was one of the pioneers of the Bund. In 1895, he emigrated from Russia and lived in France and Switzerland (in Bern and Geneva). He was a member of the Foreign Committee of the Bund from 1900-1905, and took part in a number of Bund congresses and conferences. In 1905, he returned to Russia, and from 1908-1923 lived in New York. In 1923, he returned to Russia (then the USSR). Among the aliases he used were Timofei, Grishin, and Polyakevitch.

Subjects (links to similar collections)

France
Jewish Labor Bund
Labor Movements
Politics and Political Parties
Revolutions and Revolutionary Movements
Russia
Socialism
Switzerland

Finding Aid Information

Inventory, English, 7 pp., typed

Administrative Information

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Acquisition Note: Transferred from the Bund Archives of the Jewish Labor Movement to YIVO in 1992

Collection Material Type: Personal Papers

Description: The bulk of the collection consists of the fragmentary correspondence of Kopelson with his future wife, Sonia (Sofia) Trachtenberg (Trakhtenberg), who was also a member of the Bund, and with other persons, including a prominent Marxist publicist Ekaterina Kuskova. Letters refer to the organizational structures of the Bund abroad, cooperation with other Russian political groups, financial and technical assistance to the Bund in Russia, and scheduling of meetings, as well as the personal lives of Kopelson and Trachtenberg, such as their wedding and the birth of their son.