![]() ![]() The Bolshevik/Communist state he helped launch would last 73 years, and Trotsky would serve as its foreign affairs commissar and leader of its Red Army in a bloody three-year civil war, making him second in stature to Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. Trotsky spent 10 weeks in New York in early 1917, just before returning home to Russia to help lead the Bolshevik Revolution, an event that would catapult him to global fame. In New York, his Jewishness would stand out, like it or not. Over a million Jews lived in New York at that point, more than any other city on Earth. 14, 1917, both the New York Times and Tribune-two of six newspapers that covered his arrival-stressed Trotsky’s identity as a “Jewish” writer editing “Jewish” journals in Russia and France. Still, when he landed in New York City on Sunday morning, Jan. But when asked, he normally gave his religion as “socialist” or “internationalist.” He spoke out eloquently against pogroms and anti-Jewish oppression, often at great personal risk. He was raised on a farm, not in a shtetl (Yiddish for small town). Neither of his two wives, and none of his four children were Jewish. He never wrote Yiddish, didn’t keep kosher and never entered a synagogue. Leon Trotsky never considered himself Jewish in any religious sense. Quarterly Newsletter: B’nai B’rith Impact.Report: The Apartheid Slander Against Israel.Report: Annual Marches Glorifying Nazism.2023 None Shall Be Afraid Essay Contest.
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