Hillel Schwartz

For the American cultural historian, see Hillel Schwartz (historian).

Hillel Schwartz (February 13, 1923 - August 1, 2007), an Egyptian Jew, was the founder of the Iskra ('al-Sharara') party, a small Communist political party which was one of the Egyptian political groupings advocating full independence from Great Britain before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. Iskra was a vanguardist party, which "emphasized the need for the mobilization of a revolutionary reserve of Marxist consciousness and intellectuals in order to establish a sound base from which popular activity could follow."[1]

References

  1. "The Egyptian Left and the Roots of Neutralism in the Pre-Nasserite Era," Rami Ginat, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 30, No. 1, (May, 2003), pp. 5-24, http://www.jstor.org/stable/3593243 Accessed: 07/05/2008 11:47
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