She was honorary president of the Communist Party of Argentina until the day of her death.
Fanny Jabcovsky was born in Córdoba to an immigrant family who fled the anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire: her father Felipe came from Zgurița in Bessarabia and mother from Congress Poland.
[2][3] In 1934, repelled by the electoral fraud of General José Félix Uriburu, she joined the International Red Aid (Communist party).
[1] In 1936, she married the journalist and social activist Bernardo Edelman, and together they were mobilized by the Communist party in 1937 to engage in the Republican resistance in Valencia.
[1] Bernardo was reporting for the Nueva España newspapers, while she was representing the interests of the International Red Aid like providing materials to the Communist soldiers.