Tankel Yosef (Josef, also Jazep) (1908–1959) — lawyer, public activist.
Yosef Tankel was born on 1 September 1908 in Riga, in the family of a merchant. Father — Yokhel Nakhman, mother — Reyzl (née Lipman).
He studied at the Riga Municipal German Primary School. After graduating from the Riga Municipal German Gymnasium in 1927, he began studying law at the University of Latvia, graduating in 1936.
He was active in the Jewish socialist student organization “Cukunft” at the University of Latvia, in the Latvian Social Democratic Youth Organization, in the social democratic sports society “Struggle” (chairman of the Latgale suburb branch in Riga), in the “Workers’ Youth” society (member of the board of the Riga Jewish section and of the Riga district board), and in the “Workers’ Sport and Defense” society.
He served as secretary of the committee of the board of the Jewish Social Democratic organization Bund, an autonomous component of the Latvian Social Democratic Workers’ Party, and was chairman of a section of the “Peretz Club.” During his studies, he gave private lessons and worked as a clerk in the sports society “Akoah.”
After the coup d’état of 15 May 1934, he was arrested on 25 May for political activity and placed in the Liepāja concentration camp. He was released on 29 March 1935.
In 1937–1938, he performed compulsory military service in the Latvian army, serving in a labor unit of the Kurzeme Division in Liepāja. Afterwards, he worked as an accountant and clerk at various enterprises.
During the Soviet occupation, from 28 August 1940, he was an assistant to sworn advocate G. Khilman in Riga. From June to November 1940, he was a state commissioner at the commercial enterprise “Belinskis.” From January 1941, he was a lawyer at the 2nd Riga legal consultation office.
In summer 1941, he evacuated to Russia. From August to October, he worked in harvest work; from November, in a collective farm in the Chkalov region; from September 1942, at a jute factory in Frunze (Kyrgyzstan). From 1942, he worked as a dispatcher at a public catering enterprise, later as a worker in a public catering trust in Frunze.
From May 1945, he was a lawyer at the 1st Riga legal consultation office, later a lawyer in Jelgava. In September 1948, by order of the Minister of Justice, he was expelled from the Collegium of Advocates.
He lived in Riga; from 1948, he worked as legal adviser at the “Riga Manufactory” combine, and from 1952 also at the “Krasnoye Utro” factory. In March 1959, he was reinstated in the Collegium of Advocates and worked as a lawyer at the Jelgava legal consultation office.
He died on 9 October 1959.
He married in 1939; his wife’s name was Sara. They had a daughter, Rachel (born 1940), and a son, Leonid (born 1946).
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