| 词条 | Abraham J. Isserman |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Abraham J. Isserman | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Abraham J. Isserman | birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|5|11}} | birth_place = Belgium | death_date = {{Death date and age|1988|4|22|1900|5|11}} | death_place = New York, New York | death_cause = Stroke | residence = | nationality = American | other_names = A.J. Isserman, Abraham Isserman, Abe Isserman | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Labor lawyer | years_active = | era = | employer = | organization = | known_for = Defended Gerhart Eisler (1947) and CPUSA leaders in Foley Square trial (1949) | notable_works = | style = | spouse = | partner = | children = Harold Isserman | mother = | father = | relatives = Maurice Isserman (nephew) | family = | awards = | website = }}Abraham J. Isserman (May 11, 1900 – April 22, 1988) was an American lawyer and activist who defended Gerhart Eisler in 1947 and CPUSA leaders in the Foley Square trial (1949): he was found in contempt of court by Judge Harold Medina, sentenced to four months in jail (1952), and disbarred.[1][2] BackgroundIsserman was born on May 11, 1900, in Belgium.[2] CareerAbraham J. Isserman and Morris Isserman were private attorneys at Isserman & Isserman, 24 Commerce Street, Newark, New Jersey.[3][4] His clients included Edith Berkman, the New Jersey chapter of the Congress of Industrial Organizations,[2] and the union called the American Newspaper Guild.[5] In the 1930s through 1941, he served as counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union.[2] "Communist lawyer"In 1939, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) reported that Isserman was a member of the national committee of the International Juridical Association, a communist-leaning group co-founded by Carol Weiss King and Shad Polier among others.[8][9][10] In 1939, ACLU chief Roger Nash Baldwin asked Isserman to prepare a legal brief on whether witnesses could invoke the Fifth Amendment to help witnesses called before the Dies Committee (predecessor to HUAC).[11] In April 1943, Walter Gellhorn, then New York Regional Attorney and Assistant General Counsel (later professor of law at Columbia University, also brother of photographer Martha Gellhorn) testified before HUAC as follows: Mr. MATTHEWS: Do you know Abraham J. Isserman? Gerhart Eisler trialIn 1947, with Carol Weiss King, Isserman defended Gerhart Eisler in a trial for fraudulent passport.[13] (The Federal government believed that the full "Eisler defense committee included: Max Bedacht, Dr. Felix Boenheim, Charles Collins, Eugene P. Connolly, Gustav Faber, Ida Guggenheimer, Isserman, King, Albert Maltz, and Walter Mueller.[14]) In the press, Eisler had been accused of being a mastermind for Soviet spies in the United States. On February 17, 1947, Life (magazine) magazine ran "The Career of Gerhart Eisler as a Comintern Agent" whose subtext read "Prototyp of a professional, Moscow-schooled revolutionary, he is now charged with conspiracy against the government of the U.S."[15] During proceedings, Isserman stated, "I charge that this whole procedure is in bad faither and savors to me of something more."[16] Eisler skipped bail and left the country by means of a Polish freighter.[2] In 1949, the court removed Eisler v. United States, 338 U.S. 189, from the docket, pending return of the fugitive Eisler.[17] Foley Square trialDuring appeal of the conviction, Isserman and colleagues accused trial judge Harold R. Medina of improperly favoring the prosecution. The defendants lost their appeal and went to prison.[1] Contempt, DisbarmentFurther, Isserman and Crockett among other defense attorneys was found in contempt of court. In 1952, Isserman went to jail for four months, despite support from groups like the National Lawyers Guild.[2][20] In 1954, he was disbarred from law practice in the State of New Jersey.[1][21] Following a 1953 order, he was also disbarred from the U.S. Supreme Court (In re Isserman, 348 U.S. 1 1954).[22] RestorationIn 1961, New Jersey's Supreme Court voided the disbarment and had his license restored.[1] Personal and deathOn April 22, 1988, Isserman died in a nursing home in New York City after several strokes.[1] Maurice Isserman is his nephew. See also
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite news| title = A.J. Isserman, a Labor Lawyer, Dies at 88| publisher = New York Times| url = https://www.nytimes.com/1988/04/25/obituaries/a-j-isserman-a-labor-lawyer-dies-at-88.html| date = 25 April 1988| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite journal | first = Scott| last = Martelle| title = The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy on Trial| publisher = Rutgers University Press| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jES6c0GQkzIC| pages = xv (firm), 53 (birth, clients), 223 (contempt)| date = 2011| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 3. ^{{cite web| title = National Labor Relations Act: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate National Labor Relations Board| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=1hXRAAAAMAAJ| page = 5071| date = 1940| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 4. ^{{cite web| title = Hearings, May 10-Aug. 1, 1940. II. Supplemental appendix to hearing of Aug. 1,.1940| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=17VFAQAAMAAJ| page = 5071| date = 1940| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 5. ^{{cite web| title = House Reports: 78th Congress, 2nd Session, Vol. 2| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=WuFTAAAAIAAJ| page = 51| date = 1944| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 6. ^{{cite web| title = Communist Legal Subversion: The Role of the Communist Lawyer| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://archive.org/details/communistlegalsu1959unit| date = 1959| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 7. ^{{cite web| title = Communist Legal Subversion: The Role of the Communist Lawyer| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = http://www.usasurvival.org/home/docs/NLGrprt1959.pdf| date = 1959| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 8. ^{{cite web| title = Investigation of Un-American Activities and Propaganda: Report of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=i15bAAAAcAAJ| date = 1939| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 9. ^{{cite book| title = Investigation of Un-American Propaganda Activities in the United States: Hearings Before a Special Committee on Un-American Activities| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VZ1YAAAAMAAJ| date = 1944| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 10. ^{{cite book| title = Publications Relating to Various Aspects of Communism| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iLAnAQAAMAAJ| date = 1946| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 11. ^{{cite book| first = Samuel| last = Walker| title = In Defense of Civil Liberties: A History of the ACLU| publisher = SIU Press| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hdkrBVJ37I4C| page = 121| date = 1999| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 12. ^{{cite book| title = Hearings before a Special Committee on Un=American Activities| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = | pages = 3564| date = 1943| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 13. ^{{cite book| title = The Federal Reporter| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=M9w3AAAAIAAJ| pages = 754| date = 1949| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 14. ^{{cite book | title = Investigation of un-American propaganda activities in the United States. (regarding Leon Josephson and Samuel Liptzen) Hearings| publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)| url = https://archive.org/stream/investigationofu1947aunit#page/76/mode/2up/search/Isserman| pages = 77| date = 1947| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 15. ^{{cite news| first = Hugh| last = Kay| title = The Career of Gerhart Eisler as a Comintern Agent| publisher = Life| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4UkEAAAAMBAJ| date = 17 February 1947| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 16. ^{{cite book| first1 = Robert| last1 = Lamphere| first2 = Tom| last2 = Schachtman| title = The FBI-KGB War: A Special Agent's Story| publisher = Mercer University Press| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4UkEAAAAMBAJ| pages = 60| date = 1995| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 17. ^{{cite web| title = Review of Recent Supreme Court Decisions| publisher = American Bar Association Journal| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=eOYTGNZoLn0C| pages = 46| date = January 1950| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 18. ^{{cite book| first = Ron| last = Christenson| title = Political Trials in History| publisher = Transaction Publishers| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=wBdOvs2THGEC| pages = 101| date = 1991| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 19. ^{{cite journal | first = Gerald L.K.| last = Smith| title = The Cross and the Flag| publisher = University of Michigan| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=I_7lAAAAMAAJ | pages = 219| date = 1947| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 20. ^{{cite journal| title = National Lawyers Guild Lawyer, Volumes 10-16| publisher = New York Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=dtwKAQAAMAAJ| pages = | date = 1952| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 21. ^{{cite web| title = Isserman Disbarred by New Jersey Court| publisher = New York Times| url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/03/25/84246242.pdf| date = 24 March 1954| accessdate = 28 November 2016}} 22. ^{{cite web| title = In re Disbarment of Isserman, 348 U.S. 1 (1954)| publisher = Justia US Supreme Court| url = https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/348/1/case.html| date = | accessdate = 28 November 2016}} External links
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