Rabinowitz, Victor

Rabinowitz, Victor
▪ 2008

      American lawyer

born July 2, 1911, Brooklyn, N.Y.

died Nov. 16, 2007, Manhattan, N.Y.
defended a pantheon of left-wing causes and such clients as Department of State official Alger Hiss and Cuban leader Fidel Castro; Rabinowitz won the business of the latter's government over a 1960 chess game with Cuba's revolutionary leader Che Guevara. From 1944 Rabinowitz headed his own law firm and frequently represented leftist labour unions. He was a onetime member of the Communist Party, and during U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's anticommunist crusade, Rabinowitz counted 225 suspected Communists among his clients, including acclaimed noir novelist Dashiell Hammett. In 1937 Rabinowitz helped found the National Lawyers Guild, and he became its president in 1967.

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