Abraham Markoff
[2] Elegist Moissaye J. Olgin noted the Workers School was at the right place at the right time in 1929, when the Great Depression began and "demand for a more earnest study of Marxism-Leninism" soared.
[5] In 1938, Earl Browder topped the bill to celebrate 15 years of the New York Workers School on a program that featured Markoff, Tim Holmes, the Deep River Boys, Marc Blitzstein, Anna Sokolow & Group, and the Chernishevsky Folk Dance Group at the Mecca Temple in Manhattan.
[6] Among those teachers recruited directed by Markoff were Leonard Emil Mins (latter a research analyst in the Office of Strategic Services or "OSS")[7] and Seymour A. Copstein (who testified before the Rapp-Coudert Committee in 1941).
[5] In the 1920s, Markoff spoke publicly: an open-air meeting with Juliet Stuart Poyntz (October 4, 1924),[9] at one of many May Day rallies in the New York City area (April 28, 1927),[10] and on "Whither Russia?"
In 1926, an advertisement appeared in the Daily Worker CPUSA newspaper: Telephone Lehigh 6022 DR. ABRAHAM MARKOFF Surgeon Dentist 249 East 115th St., Cor.
[4] In August 1939, at the time of his death, Party leader Earl Browder said of him, "The movement has lost one of its most modest, effective, and persevering workers.
Allan Markoff admitted to membership in American Peace Mobilization, the International Workers Order (IWO), and National Council of American-Soviet Friendship.
He also had a financial interest in the "People's Radio Foundation, Inc.," through whom he met Joseph R. Brodsky (head of the CPUSA's International Labor Defense).
