21 Facts About Isaac Steinberg

Isaac Nachman Steinberg was a lawyer, a Left Socialist-Revolutionary, politician, People's Commissar under Lenin, and a leader of the Jewish Territorialist movement and writer in Soviet Russia and in exile.

In 1906, Isaac Steinberg entered Moscow University, where he studied law.

Isaac Steinberg joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party.

Isaac Steinberg was arrested in 1908 and sent to Tobolsk province for 2 years.

In 1910, Isaac Steinberg returned to Russia and worked as a lawyer.

Isaac Steinberg continued his work as a lawyer in Ufa, where he led the Left Socialist Revolutionaries of the Ufa province.

Isaac Steinberg was elected a delegate of the City Duma, was a member of the Executive Committee of the Ufa Council of Workers and Soldiers and the All-Russian Council of Peasant Deputies; participant in the All-Russian Democratic Conference; Member of the Provisional Council of the Russian Republic.

Isaac Steinberg condemned the uprising in Petrograd, but became part of the Ufa Provincial Commissar of Agriculture nonetheless.

Isaac Steinberg was elected to the Russian Constituent Assembly on the list of Socialist Revolutionaries from the Ufa province.

Isaac Steinberg was elected to the All-Ukrainian Central Committee of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.

Isaac Steinberg delivered a speech approving the withdrawal of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries from the SNK and warned of the danger of the Soviet bureaucracy.

Isaac Steinberg was arrested by the Cheka on February 10,1919 and spent four and a half months in custody.

In 1923, having been warned that he was in danger of assassination, Isaac Steinberg again moved to Germany and took his young family to live with him in Berlin.

Isaac Steinberg based his campaign on the officially declared need to populate northern Australia.

Isaac Steinberg left Australia in June 1943 to rejoin his family in Canada.

Isaac Steinberg was a prolific Yiddish writer, editor and prominent cultural activist, who played an important role in the development of the Yiddishist movement.

Isaac Steinberg's son was the distinguished art historian Leo Steinberg.

Unlike many anarchists, Isaac Steinberg believed that it is possible and necessary to form a political party whose task would be the destruction of the state from within.

Isaac Steinberg noted, like some contemporary anarchists, that even an established syndicalist federation would not be completely free of elements or "crystals" of organized power.

Isaac Steinberg viewed anarchism as an underlying principle, spirit, and drive of revolutionary socialism, rather than as a concrete political program with an ultimate goal.

Isaac Steinberg worked hard to establish a Jewish self-managed territory, but did not support the idea of the Jewish nation-state and was highly critical of Zionist movement politics.