BINYUMIN-HERZL BERGER (August 31, 1904-August 28, 1962)
He was born in Minsk, Byelorussia. His father Yitskhok-Yoysef, a well-known
Zionist activist, was among the first leaders of the Minsk labor Zionists. He studied in a public senior high school. He was a member, 1919-1921, of the illegal
party Hashomer Hatsair (The young guard) in Soviet Russia. In 1921 he moved to Poland, where he was
active among the Bialystok Poale-Tsiyon (right). From Poland he moved on to Germany, where he
worked as a publisher and, simultaneously, studied law in the University of
Berlin; he received the title of Doctor of Juridical Science. In 1932 he returned to Poland and settled in
Warsaw. He was a member of the central
committee of Poale-Tsiyon (Zionist socialists), and he belonged to the
editorial board of the daily newspaper Dos vort (The word), in which he
published articles on current themes.
From 1934 he was living in Palestine, and there he contributed to Davar
(Word) and various other publications of the Mapai Party, and he was a
representative of Mapai in the Knesset.
He also published articles in Undzer vort (Our word) in Paris and
Idisher kemfer (Jewish fighter) in New York, among others. He died in Tel Aviv.
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