Abraham Bernard AB Magil was born in 1905 in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a poor, Jewish, immigrant family.
12 Facts About AB Magil
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AB Magil won a scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained a degree in journalism and was a Phi Beta Kappa Key.
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In 1926, after graduating, AB Magil moved to New York City, where he joined the Communist Party and went on staff at the Daily Worker, the Party's newspaper.
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The local edition soon ran out of money, so AB Magil started to edit the Auto News for the Auto Workers Union, a left-led predecessor of the United Auto Workers.
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AB Magil wrote a poem on the death of Soviet poet Mayakovsky, which appeared along with other poetry in the 1938 Anthology of Proletarian Literature in the United States, edited by Granville Hicks.
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AB Magil decided to take his family to live in Palestine.
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AB Magil served as foreign correspondent for the Daily Worker and Yiddish-language Morning Frieheit.
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AB Magil returned to the States at McCarthyism's peak, joined the Party's Administrative Committee, establish a National Peace Commission, and continued to write for the Daily Worker.
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AB Magil interviewed Guatemala's leader Jacobo Arbenz six month's before the latter's overthrow.
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AB Magil continued Party activity as a member of the editorial board of the progressive monthly Jewish Currents and was member in a Party club of writers led by Si Gerson.
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AB Magil left the Party with many others in 1992 in the wake of the fall of the Soviet Union and joined the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
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Around 1940, AB Magil married Harriet Black, a psychiatric social worker who had been National Treasurer of the American Women's Congress; they were married for 63 years, until his death.