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10 Facts About Henryk Grossman

1.

Henryk Grossman was born as Chaskel Henryk Grossman into a relatively prosperous Polish Jewish family in Krakow, Poland.

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Henryk Grossman's father died at the age of 54 when Henryk was 15.

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Henryk Grossman joined the socialist movement around 1898, becoming a member of the Social Democratic Party of Galicia, an affiliate of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria.

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Henryk Grossman led the resistance of orthodox Marxists to this current.

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Henryk Grossman was the main figure in the newspaper Zjednoczenie, which took a line close to the SDKPiL, against the pro-PPS politics of Ruchs main organ, Promien for which he was censured by the PPSD and its newspaper Naprzod.

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Henryk Grossman was the founding secretary and theoretician of the Jewish Social Democratic Party of Galicia in 1905.

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Henryk Grossman earned his juris doctor degree in 1908 from the Jagiellonian University.

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From 1922 to 1925, Henryk Grossman was Professor of economics at the Free Polish University in Warsaw.

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Much of the remainder of Henryk Grossman's book is devoted to exploring these "elasticities" or counter-crisis tendencies, tracking both their logical and their actual, historical development.

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Henryk Grossman was plagued with ill health and died after suffering with prostate problems and Parkinson's disease.