Fanny Edelman

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.