BELMONT, Leo. Leopold Blumental

Printed wrappers, 179pp.. A good, clean, tight copy. Covers a little chipped. Author's presentation copy. Used; Very Good Leo Blumental was a well-known publicist before World War I, he was harassed by tsarist authorities for his radical views. He wrote for the Polish and Polish Jewish press, co-operated with the assimilationist weekly Izraelita, and edited the democratic weekly Wolne Slowo. Belmont was a founder of the Polish Esperanto Society. Baptized in 1913, he continued to oppose what he considered to be the backwardness of the traditional Jewish community, and to criticize both Jewish “separatism” and Polish antisemitism. Baptized in 1913, Belmont continued to oppose what he considered to be the backwardness of the traditional Jewish community, and to criticize both Jewish “separatism” and Polish antisemitism. He died in the Warsaw Ghetto.