"The whole generation was destroyed." How the Gulag turned the founder of the Palestine Communist Party into a believing Hasid
Joseph Berger 120 years ago, on November 29, 1904, Joseph Berger was born. He came to Palestine to build a Jewish state, but was disappointed in Zionism and believed in communism. He became one of the founders and secretary of the Palestine Communist Party, and when she joined the Comintern, he obeyed the Kremlin. For the fact that Berger stood up for the Jews in the conflict with the Arabs, Stalin called him to Moscow and after a five -hour conversation was removed from the post of secretary.