Abraham Brumberg was a Jewish American writer and editor. He is known for writing about the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

 and Jewish issues. He was the first editor of Problems of Communism journal (1952-1970), author of numerous articles and essays (published in The New York Times

The New York Times

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, Dissent

Dissent (magazine)

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, The New Republic

The New Republic

The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...

and other outlets), editor of several anthologies of articles. Fluent in Yiddish

Yiddish language

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, he was also an activist for preservation of that language.

Brumberg was born in Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

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 and lived in Poland

Poland

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as a child.

External links

• Abraham Brumberg; Scholar Wrote About Judaism, Communism and Eastern Europe, Obituary, Washington Post, 16 February 2008
• Abraham Brumberg, Writer on Eastern Europe, Is Dead at 81, Obituary, 7 February 2008
• Obituary:Abraham Brumberg, The Guardian, 12 12 2008
• Some articles by Brumberg at NYBooks.com