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Rosa Bloch

1880 – 1922

Swiss politician (1880-1922), editor

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Lived 1880 – 1922 (aged 42). Rosa Bloch was a Swiss politician and editor.

Rosa Bloch-Bollag (1880 – 13 July 1922) was a Swiss politician and activist who, as a member of the Swiss Socialist Party, led a women's demonstration against increases in food prices in 1918. In 1920, she was one of the founding members of the Swiss Communist Party.

Biography Born on 30 June 1880 in Zürich, Switzerland, Rosa Bloch was the daughter of the grain merchant Berthold Bloch and Julie Guggenheim. Brought up in a family of a poor Jewish merchant, Rosa once she gained her independence worked as a representative of a jewellery shop. Initially an anarchist, she joined the socialist party in 1912 but later became a Marxist. She proved to be a competent editor of the women workers' journal Die Vorkämperin, contributing articles which not only were politically engaging but were remarkably well drafted. In 1921, after the Socialist Party had broken up, together with the other left-wingers she became a founding member of the Communist Party.

Rosa Bloch-Bollag died on 13 July 1922 in Zürich, after undergoing a goitre operation.

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Rosa Bollag, Rosa Bloch-Bollag

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Who was Rosa Bloch?

Swiss politician (1880-1922), editor

When was Rosa Bloch born?

Rosa Bloch was born on 30 June 1880 in Zurich.

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Rosa Bloch died on 13 July 1922 in Zurich.

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Rosa Bloch was a politician and editor.

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Rosa Bloch was Swiss.

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· Wikipedia: Rosa Bloch

· Wikidata: Q1428699

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