3/27 | Birthday of Budd Schulberg
Today in Yiddishkayt… March 27 Birthday of Budd Schulberg, Screenwriter and Novelist Seymour Wilson Schulberg (known as Budd Schulberg) was born on March 27, 1914 in New York City, but was raised in Hollywood, California. He was the son of movie producer Benjamin Schulberg and literary agent Adeline Jaffee Schulberg. Schulberg attended Dartmouth College, where he was involved in the publication of a campus humor magazine. As a student in 1934, Schulberg visited the Soviet Union and heard Maxim Gorky make a speech on socialist realism at the first Soviet Writers’ Congress. After...
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Today in Yiddishkayt… February 9 Yortsayt of Paul Levi, Political Leader Paul Levi was born March 11, 1883 in Hechingen, Germany to a Jewish middle-class family. He joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) in 1906 and served as Rosa Luxemburg‘s lawyer when she was tried for inciting soldiers to disobedience in 1914. In 1916, Levi settled in Switzerland where he became active with the Zimmerwald Left and the Spartacus League, which became the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). After the failure of the German Revolution of 1918–1919, and the killing of the KPD’s...
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