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Abraham Brumbergwriter on Eastern Europe Died: January 26, 2008
(Chevy Chase, Maryland)
Best Known as: writer on Eastern Europe and editor of Problems of
Communism
Abraham Brumberg was a well-known writer on Eastern Europe and the
first editor of the respected journal Problems of
Communism, which analyzed Communist affairs. The journal was
founded in 1952 and published six times a year by the United States
Information Agency. Brumberg was the editor in chief until 1970. His
writing on Eastern Europe was also published in The New York
Times, Dissent,
and The New Republic, among many
others. In 2007, Brumberg published a memoir called Journeys
Through Vanishing Worlds. Abraham Brumberg was fluent in
Yiddish and active in efforts to preserve the language. His father had
been a leader of the Jewish Socialist Bund in Poland. When the Nazis
invaded Poland in 1939, the family fled to Lithuania and then Japan before
settling in the United States in 1941. Brumberg graduated from the City
College of New York in 1950 and completed his master's in Soviet studies
at Yale in 1953.
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