Alexander Trachtenberg, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlexander Trachtenberg
American publisher
Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1885
Date of Death: 16-Dec-1966
Profession: publisher
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Alexander Trachtenberg
- Alexander "Alex" Trachtenberg (1884–1966) was an American publisher of radical political books and pamphlets, founder and manager of International Publishers of New York.
- He was a longtime activist in the Socialist Party of America and later in the Communist Party USA.
- For more than eight decades, his International Publishers was a part of the publishing arm of the American communist movement.
- He served as a member of the CPUSA's Central Control Committee.
- During the period of McCarthyism in America, Trachtenberg was twice subject to prosecution and convicted under the Smith Act; the convictions were overturned, the first by recanting of a government witness and the second by a US Circuit Court of Appeals decision in 1958.
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