Maurice Levitas

Maurice "Morry" Levitas (Moishe ben Hillel) (February 1, 1917 - February 14, 2001) was an Irish academic and communist.
Biography
Levitas was born at Warren Street, in the Portobello area of Dublin. He was known to his family and friends as "Morry". His parents, Harry Levitas and Leah Rick, having emigrated to Ireland from Lithuania and Latvia in 1912, were married in the Camden Street Synagogue in Dublin. Harry Levitas was a member of the Tailors and Pressers Union, known in Dublin as the Jewish Union. Maurice attended St Peter's Church of Ireland National School. In 1927, the family emigrated to Britain, first to Glasgow then to London Maurice Levitas joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1933 and was also an active trade unionist. He and his brothers Max and Sol, were involved in the 1936 ‘Battle of Cable Street’ against the British Union of Fascists.
In 1937, he joined the Connolly Column of the International Brigade and fought in the...