Alexander Trachtenberg | |
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 Alexander Trachtenberg at 4th World Congress of Communist International in Moscow (1922) | |
| Born | Alexander Leo Trachtenberg November 23, 1885 |
| Died | December 16, 1966 (aged 81) |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Years active | 1902-1966 |
| Employer(s) | Rand School of Social Science, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, International Publishers |
| Notable work | founding of International Publishers |
| Political party | Communist Party of the United States of America |
| Movement | Communist |
| Spouse | Rosalind Kohn Trachtenberg |
| Children | (no children) |
Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg (23 November 1884 – 26 December 1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York. He was a longtime activist in the Socialist Party of America and later in the Communist Party USA. For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement. He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee.[1] During the period of McCarthyism in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under the Smith Act; the convictions were overturned, the first by recanting of a government witness and the second by a US Circuit Court of Appeals decision in 1958.
- ^ Chambers, Whittaker (1952). Witness. New York: Random House. pp. 242, 264. ISBN 978-0-394-45233-3. LCCN 52005149.[permanent dead link]