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Death Reported. Ana Rabinsohn Pau-ker, 65, longtime Communist matriarch, who as Foreign Minister ran Red Rumania from 1947 until her downgrading to a minor job in 1952; of cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted...
...point, "that enjoys the highest military position held by woman since Joan of Arc? . . . For an introductory answer, see the article on Mrs. Anna Rosenberg in the Reader's Digest of February 1951. For an interesting portrait of another modern woman . . . see the similar article on Ana Rabinsohn Pauker in the same magazine...
Died. Rabbi Zvi Rabinsohn, 88, father of Communist Boss Ana Pauker of Rumania ; after long illness; in Tel Aviv, Israel. Fanatically Orthodox himself, he brought his ungainly daughter up strictly, left Rumania for Israel after the Reds (aided by Ana) took over, never saw Ana again...
...King Michael's last major acts before he abdicated, 2½ years later, was to swear in Zvi Rabinsohn's daughter as his Foreign Minister. That was during Soviet-Rumanian Friendship Week...
...Squashed Beetles. Ana Paukerwas born (1893) in Bucharest, where her father Zvi Rabinsohn was a shohet, i.e., the man who kills animals in accordance with Jewish rules. Rumania in those days was not a pleasant place, particularly not for Jews.The peasants, working Europe's richest soil for their boyar masters, were taught to blame all their misfortune on the Jews. Persecutions were frequent...