Background
FENIGSHTEYN, Ya. was born in 1888.
Polish and Russian revolutionary
FENIGSHTEYN, Ya. was born in 1888.
Party work in Poland and abroad. 1917 member, Saint St. Petersburg Russian Social-Democratic Workers ’Party (Bolsheviks) Committee and its Executive Commission. Simultaneously member, Central Committee, Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lithuania
Member, editorial board, Polish Bolshevik periodical Trybuna. 1918 Leftist Communist. From late 1918 member, Central Committee, Communist Party Lith and Belorussian, and deputy chairman, Lith and Belorussian Council of People's Commissar.
1920, during the Red Army’s Warsaw offensive, with Polish Bureau, Central Committee, and Polish Revol Committee. After the Civil War government work. Executive director, Russian Telegraph Agency, then Telegraphic Agency of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.
Arrested by State Security organs.
Member, Social-Democratic Party of Poland and Lith from 1904.