Ana Pauker: The Rise and Fall of a Jewish Communist

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Berkeley, University of California Press, 2001. BRAND NEW. Virgin copy, not yet traded. Royal 8vo. Pp. xii, 408. Plus 16 unnumbered pages of illustrations, bound in the text. With halftone frontispiece, map, 19 halftone illustrations (many full-page); appendix, notes, bibliography, index. Hardcover, half cloth, spine lettered in gilt, with dust-jacket. - - First edition. Once described as 'the most powerful woman alive,' Pauker was the daughter of poor Orthodox Jewish parents, spending her youth in an increasingly anti-Semitic environment. She later became the Romanian Communist leader, and a foreign minister. In that position she restricted emigration of Romanian Jews to Israel. Provides an interesting look inside the workings of Soviet communism in East Central Europe. ISBN:#0520223950 ISBN:#0 520 22395 0 . ISBN 0520223950 0 520 22395 0.