David Petrovsky was a Ukrainian Jewish revolutionary politician, economist, journalist, general of the Red Army, and Soviet statesman. He was an active member of the General Jewish Labour Bund in the
Petrovsky in 1924
Leadership of the Jewish Socialist Federation in 1917. Seated (L-R): Ben-Tsien Hofman (Tsivion), Max Goldfarb, Morris Winchevsky, A. Litvak, Hannah Salutsky, Moishe Terman. Standing: Shauchno Epstein, Frank Rozenblat, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Moissaye Olgin, Jacob Salutsky (J.B.S. Hardman).
Petrovsky (Max Goldfarb, first from left) at the Stockholm International Socialist Congress, 1917
Petrovsky at the meeting of the chief commanders of the Red Army in Moscow, 1922. 1st row standing: 7th Boris Shaposhnikov. 1st row sitting (from left to right): 1st D.P. Oskin, 2nd August Kork, 3rd N.N. Petin, 4th Alexander Yegorov (soldier), 5th Mikhail Frunze, 6th Sergey Kamenev, 7th Kliment Voroshilov, 8th Pavel Pavlovich Lebedev, 9th A.A. Iordanskiy, 10th Iona Yakir, 11th David Petrovsky, 12th Mikhail Tukhachevsky.
Jacob Benjamin Salutsky, also known by the alias as J.B.S. Hardman, was a Belarusian-born Jewish American political activist, radical journalist and trade union functionary. Hardman was a proponent of
David Petrovsky
…the auspices of the JSF in early 1914. During the tour he addressed more than 15,000 in about 40 engagements according to the report of JSF Secretary Jacob Salutsky. In addition to his role as a functionary of the JSF, Goldfarb worked as labor editor of Abraham Cahan's Yiddish-language daily, Forverts (The Forward…
Salutsky (standing, right) among foreign translator-secretaries for the Socialist Party of America, 1912