Alexander Gumberg (June 26, 1888 [n.s.] – May 30, 1939) was a translator and businessman born in Kropyvnytskyi (then Elizavetgrad), part of today's Ukraine. He was a Russian citizen of ethnic Jewish origins who emigrated to the United States in 1903 and went on to become an important link between the Soviet regime and the USA following the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the translator and personal assistant of Raymond Robins of the American Red Cross.[1] Although he was not a Bolshevik himself, his brother Sergei Gumberg–Zorin was.[2]
Gumberg died May 30, 1939, in Norwalk, Connecticut, reportedly of a heart attack.
References
- Smith, C. Jay (1978). "Alexander Gumberg and Soviet American Relations, 1917-1933. By Libbey James K. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1977. xii, 229 pp". Slavic Review. 37 (2): 299. doi:10.2307/2497617. ISSN 0037-6779. JSTOR 2497617.
- Libbey, James K. (1977). Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations: 1917–1933. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 9780813163642. Retrieved 15 November 2017. internet archive