London, Noah, 1888-

Noah London (1888-c1940), born in Russia in 1888, was an important Jewish official of the Communist Party of the USA before returning to his native Russia around 1926. In the United States, he studied engineering at Cooper Union, was active in the Party's Jewish Federation, was the first labor editor of its newspaper, Freiheit, and was chair of the United Workers Cooperative Colony. In the USSR, he worked on the Moscow subway, and at one time was head of water management for the Russian SFR, reporting to Ordzhonikidze. He was arrested sometime during the 1937-38 purges connected to the Moscow Trials and died around 1940.

From the guide to the Noah London Papers, circa 1934-2002, (Tamiment Library / Wagner Archives)