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The Austrian politician Julius Deutsch was born into an impoverished Jewish family in the town of Lackenbach in 1884, moving with his family to Vienna shortly after. He got involved early in the Social Democratic Workers’ Party and was sponsored by its leadership to pursue higher education, leading to his graduation as Dr.jur. in 1908. After 1918, he worked in various official positions, but his most important contribution to Austria’s socialism (Austromarxism) was his leadership of the anti-fascist defense militia “Republikanischer Schutzbund”. After Austria’s civil war in 1934, he escaped to Czechoslovakia, and 1936-1939, he fought with the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. In 1940, he emigrated to the United States, returning to Vienna in 1946. Julius Deutsch died in 1968.
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Julius Deutsch, Leo Baeck Institute, DM 362.