George Raffalovich

George Raffalovich (10 December 1880 – 17 May 1958) was a journalist, novelist, and academic. He was born in France and moved to the UK in about 1906. He was associated with the occultist Aleister Crowley for several years before World War I. He became a supporter of Ukrainian independence, and published several articles on the topic, but left the UK for America when his support for Ukraine led to him being suspected of treasonous sympathies with the Central Powers. He became an academic in the US, lecturing at Dartmouth College and Emory University, eventually settling in New Orleans where he died in 1958.

Early life Raffalovich was born on 10 December 1880 in Cannes, France. #tag:ref|The source for Raffalovich's mother having been a countess is Aleister Crowley, with whom Raffalovich was associated for a while. This is dismissed by a more recent paper, which also gives Theodore and Gregoire as alternative forms of the name. but he considered it debatable whether he could call himself Jewish. His relatives included Sophie Raffalovich, his cousin, and her brother Marc-André Raffalovich. Gregor died in 1881, in Paris. and became a British citizen that year. under the name Frater Audeo et Gaudeo. Raffalovich's fiction, some of which was published in The Equinox, included stories featuring a character named Elphenor Pistouillat de la Ratisboisière, who was based on Crowley.

International politics In 1910 Raffalovich began publishing articles on international politics. He met Vladimir Stepanowsky, a Ukrainian political exile, in London in 1912, and soon began publishing letters and articles in support of Ukrainian independence, sometimes under the pseudonym "Bedwin Sands". Members included the historian Robert Seton-Watson.

Raffalovich is described in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine as "the best-informed observer of Ukrainian affairs in Great Britain in his day". He was forced to leave the UK in 1915 under suspicion of treasonously supporting Germany, and the Ukraine Committee ceased to exist with his departure.

By 1921 Raffalovich was an assistant professor of French at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; Dartmouth granted him a leave of absence for the 1921-1922 academic year. He spent five years in the 1920s in Italy, returning by early 1928, and published a study of Mussolini. In 1926, while in Italy, he was Secretary-Interpreter for a program of the Rockefeller Foundation. He married and he and his wife, Dorothy Harmon Dawson, moved to Atlanta, Georgia in about 1929. Later that year he began teaching French and Italian at the Georgia Conservatory of Music in Atlanta. Reprinted:

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