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Rabinovich Itzhak (1884)

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SurnameRabinovich
NameItzhak
Birth year1884
Birth placeTelusha
SexM

Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch) Itzhak (1884, Telusha, Minsk Province — ?) - public and state figure.

After graduating from the Liepāja Gymnasium, Itzhak Rabinovich joined the Bund. He was repeatedly arrested and exiled to Siberia. He studied in Leipzig and graduated from the commercial division of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Geneva.

He founded a Bundist organization in Liepāja. After the revolution, he was elected to the Council of Workers’ Deputies and also became a deputy of the Liepāja City Council. He was a member of the People’s Council in the Constituent Assembly and held responsible positions in the labour movement as chairman of the Liepāja Bund.

He served as a representative of the Bund in the Central Committee of the Latvian Social Democratic Party and was a member of its Audit Commission. A member of trade unions, he was also the founder and chairman of the Intellectual Society in Latvia. He edited Bund publications and was a deputy of the Riga City Council from the Bund.