James Lewin (Russian: Джемс Натанович Левин, romanized: Dzhems Natanovich Levin; 28 October 1887 in Berlin – 31 December 1937 in Chelyabinsk, USSR) was a German-Jewish psychiatrist and physician.
In 1912, Lewin received his doctorate in philosophy from Friedrich-Wilhelms University with a thesis on the subject of the French idealist pantheist, Nicolas Malebranche.
[1] In this work he wrote about situational psychoses[2] He married the soprano, Clara Abramowitz, in March 1917, and a son was born in Lichtenrade in December that year.
As a Jewish doctor, Lewin lost his insurance licence at the end of April 1933 pursuant to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, and was forced to leave Germany.
They were charged with participation in a counterrevolutionary terrorist organization consisting of Agro-Joint workers and doctor-microbiologists who aimed to assassinate members of the Soviet government.
Following his transfer to Chelyabinsk, Lewin was found guilty on 31 December 1937, and was sentenced by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR to execution by gunshot, with confiscation of all his property.
[4] Lewin is probably buried in a mass grave located in the mines at Golden Mountain (Zlata Gora), where adits were used to hide the bodies of victims of NKVD operations.
[5] [6] During his interrogation, Lewin allegedly confessed to "anti-Soviet counter revolutionary activities, spying for the Gestapo, and the planning of terrorist attacks".
Lewin, along with 28 other refugee doctors, was posthumously named in Germany's "List of Wanted Individuals in the USSR" (Sonderfahndungsliste UdSSR) prepared in 1941 by the Reich Security Main Office (RHSA).
At the time of his move to Russia, Agro-Joint records indicate that Lewin had works in progress on the subjects of Leibniz and Kant, philosophical anthropology, and "The Basics and Problems of Phenomology and Humanities Psychology".