Isaac Steinberg | |
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Исаак Штейнберг | |
People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR | |
In office 22 December 1917 – 18 March 1918 | |
Premier | Vladimir Lenin |
Preceded by | Pēteris Stučka |
Succeeded by | Pēteris Stučka |
Personal details | |
Born | Isaac Nachman Steinberg 13 July 1888 Daugavpils, Russian Empire |
Died | 2 January 1957 New York City, United States | (aged 68)
Political party | Socialist Revolutionary Party, Left Socialist-Revolutionaries |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Isaac Nachman Steinberg (Russian: Исаак Нахман Штейнберг; 13 July 1888 – 2 January 1957) was a lawyer, an Orthodox Jew, a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, politician, People's Commissar under Lenin, and a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in Soviet Russia and in exile.