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Abe Osheroff
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Full Database Record
| Last Name | Osheroff |
| First/Middle Name | Abe |
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Biography
Abe Osheroff was born in Brooklyn in 1915. He was a neighborhood activist at sixteen, a student activist at City College, and then did some organizing for the CIO. He went to Spain in 1937. On his return he was a union organizer, headed the Communist Party's Jewish Commission, and worked in the South. He is a carpenter by trade and has helped build housing in Nicaragua. He has also made two documentary film on the Spanish Civil War: Dreams and Nightmares (1974) and Art in the Struggle for Freedom (2000).