Arcady (Aaron) Kraemer, Jewish revolutionary leader and a founder of the Jewish labor party Bund, died here today. He was 70 years old.
Born in a suburb of Wilno, Kraemer became active in the revolutionary movement when as a student in the Riga Politechnicum he led the propaganda activity among the military garrison in the district. In 1888 he was arrested and was imprisoned for eight months in the Warsaw citadel.
In 1895 Kraemer helped found the first Yiddish-language revolutionary periodical, Russian News. He was also one of the moving spirits of the first conference of Jewish Social-Democratic organizations, held in Wilno, in October 1897. This conference proclaimed the organization of Bund, in which Kraemer played a leading role.
Arrested numerous times for his revolutionary activity, an outstanding episode in his stormy career is reminiscent of the recent swastika incident on the liner Bremen in New York. While an exile in Geneva just before the turn of the century, Kraemer led a demonstration before the Russian Embassy in the course of
the Czarist flag was torn from its mast and was thrown into the lake. For this act he was deported to France.
Kraemer visited America in 1903 on a mission for the Bund. For the next five years he was active in London and in 1912 he went to France to complete his studies.
Kraemer was an electro-technical engineer on the French railways, and on the Parisian Metro. He returned to Wilno in 1921 and became a teacher of mathematics in the Jewish Teachers Seminary. He was also an instructor at the technological institute of the ORT, society for productivization of declassed Jews in Eastern Europe.
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