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Paul Wohl

Paul Wohl (1901 – April 2, 1985) was a German-born journalist and political commentator.^[1]

Background[edit]

Paul Wohl was born in 1901 in Berlin.

Career[edit]

In 1938, Wohl came to the United States as a correspondent for Czechoslovak newspapers.^[1] He worked for the Christian Science Monitor from 1941 until 1979, when he retired.^[1] He also contributed to the New York Herald Tribune, The Nation, Barron's, and Commonweal.^[1][2]

In the mid-1920s, Wohl met Soviet spy Walter Krivitsky. Months after Krivitsky defected, Wohl left Europe for the States and became Krivitsky's literary agent. Wohl (and Isaac Don Levine as ghostwriter) helped the non-English-speaking Krivitsky write his memoir In Stalin's Secret Service (1939). At the time of its publication, they argued about fees owed to Wohl and severed their connection.^[3]

Death[edit]

Paul Wohl died age 84 in April 1985 at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, after living three years at the Pelham Parkway Nursing Home.^[1]

See also[edit]

• Walter Krivitsky
• Isaac Don Levine
• Louis Waldman

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Krivitsky, Walter G. (2000). In Stalin's Secret Service: Memoirs of the First Soviet Master Spy to Defect. Enigma Books. ISBN 978-1-929631-38-4.
• Waldman, Louis (1944). Labor Lawyer. E. P. Dutton & Co.
• Kern, Gary (2004). A Death in Washington: Walter G. Krivitsky and the Stalin Terror. Enigma Books. ISBN 978-1-929631-25-4.