Paul Olberg

Paul Olberg (1878–1960), born in Jakobstadt (someone else said Riga), Latvia, was a Latvian journalist and a Menshevik. In 1917, after the October Revolution, went into exile in Berlin, where he lived for many years. He worked as a correspondent for Swedish social democratic newspapers. In 1933, he fled to Stockholm; that year, he became Secretary of the Stockholm-based Socialist Rescue Committee for German Refugees.

Olberg was Scandinavian representative of the Jewish Labor Committee, and headed the JLC's Stockholm office; from 1945, he coordinated the JLC's postwar services to refugees in Scandinavia.

In 1957 Olberg was a member of the coordinating committee of the International Jewish Labor Bund.

Bibliography

• Briefe aus Sowjet-Russland, 1919
• Die Bauernrevolution in Russland. Die alte und die neue Politik Sowjet-Russlands, 1922
• Die Tragödie des Baltikums. Die Annexion der freien Republiken Estland, Lettland und Litauen, 1941
• Det moderna Egypten : i det andra världskriget, Natur & Kultur, 1943
• Antisemitism i Sovjet, Natur & Kultur, 1953
• Lost Worlds of Labour: Paul Olberg, the Jewish Labour Bund, and Menshevik Socialism, by Håkan Blomqvist (chapter 6 in the book "The Sea of Identities: A Century of Baltic and East European Experiences with Nationality, Class, and Gender" (2014, Södertörn University) - available online here: http://sh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:748788/FULLTEXT01.pdf