Alexander Parvus

Alexander Lvovich Parvus , born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand , was a Marxist theoretician, revolutionary, and a controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Israel Lazarevich Gelfand was born to an ethnic Jewish family on September 81601601867 in the shtetl of Berazino, now part of Belarus. Although little is known of Israels early childhood, the Gelfand family was of the lower middle class with his father working as an artisan of some sort perhaps as a locksmith or a blacksmith. When Israel was a small boy the familys home in Berazino was destroyed by a fire, prompting a move to the city of Odessa in Ukraine, the hometown of Israels paternal grandfather.

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