Isaac Steinberg

Isaac Steinberg
Исаак Штейнберг
Steinberg c. 1950
People's Commissar for Justice of the RSFSR
In office
22 December 1917 – 18 March 1918
PremierVladimir Lenin
Preceded byPēteris Stučka
Succeeded byPēteris Stučka
Personal details
Born
Isaac Nachman Steinberg

13 July 1888
Daugavpils, Russian Empire
Died2 January 1957(1957-01-02) (aged 68)
New York City, United States
Political partySocialist Revolutionary Party, Left Socialist-Revolutionaries
OccupationLawyer

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.