Joseph Berger-Barzilai

Joseph Berger-Barzilai
Berger-Barzilai's Palestine Police mugshot, 1925
Born(1904-11-29)29 November 1904
Kraków, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary
Died31 March 1978(1978-03-31) (aged 73)
Israel
Political partyCommunist Party of Palestine
Palestine Communist Party
SpouseEsther Feldman

Joseph Berger-Barzilai (Russian: Иосиф Михайлович Бергер-Барзилай, romanized: Iosif Mikhaylovich Berger-Barzilay; 29 November 1904 – 31 March 1978), born Itskhak Mordukhovich Zheliaznik (Russian: Ицхак Мордухович Желязник), was a founding member and the secretary of the Communist Party of Palestine and an official of the Communist International. A victim of the Great Purge, Berger-Barzilai was imprisoned in various Gulag prisons for a total of 16 years.

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