Hillel_Schwartz

Hillel Schwartz

Hillel Schwartz

Jewish Egyptian politician (1923–2007)

For the American cultural historian, see Hillel Schwartz (historian).

Hillel Schwartz (13 February 1923 – 1 August 2007), an Egyptian Jew, was the founder of the Iskra ('al-Sharara') party, a small Communist political party which was one of the Egyptian political groupings advocating full independence from Great Britain before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.[1] Iskra was a vanguardist party, which "emphasized the need for the mobilization of a revolutionary reserve of Marxist consciousness and intellectuals in order to establish a sound base from which popular activity could follow."[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Selma Botman (Spring 1985). "The Rise and Experience of Egyptian Communism: 1919-1952". Studies in Comparative Communism. 18 (1): 59. doi:10.1016/0039-3592(85)90055-9.
  2. [2]
    Rami Ginat (May 2003). "The Egyptian Left and the Roots of Neutralism in the Pre-Nasserite Era". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 30 (1): 5–24. doi:10.1080/1353019032000059063. JSTOR 3593243. S2CID 153901018.
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