11 Facts About Mark Vishniak

Mark Veniaminovich Vishniak was an American socialist, journalist and writer, working for Time Magazine.

Mark Vishniak was a delegate at the PSR Congress in 1906.

Mark Vishniak belonged to the Interim Council of the Republic and was elected to the short-lived Constituent Assembly.

In France Mark Vishniak was active among Russian exiles and in the Jewish community.

Mark Vishniak attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as a delegate for the Jewish people and had become a supporter of socialist Zionism.

Mark Vishniak belonged to the World Congress of Jewish Minorities.

Mark Vishniak contributed to several emigre journals, including Sovremennye zapiski and the Evreiskaia Tribuna.

When Hitler invaded France, Mark Vishniak escaped to the United States, but he could not persuade his friend Fondaminsky to flee; Fondaminsky was later killed in Auschwitz.

Mark Vishniak became an American citizen and a respected figure in American journalism and academia: Mark Vishniak served on the editorial board of Time Magazine and worked as its consultant on Russian affairs.

Mark Vishniak taught Russian language and literature at Cornell University.

Mark Vishniak wrote prolifically on the history of the Russian Revolution, Bolshevism and Soviet policy, his memoirs, the Jewish community, etc.