In his unpublished memoir, Shouting for Justice, Brin wrote of having to walk to school through a gauntlet of anti-Semitic neighborhoods where signs posted on windows read "No Jews and Dogs Allowed." An encounter with a gang of Polish immigrant toughs left him with a six-inch scar on his leg and an abiding hatred of anti-Semitism.ĭuring the 1930s, Brin infiltrated the German-American Bund for the Anti-Defamation League, then the only American organization tracking the activities of domestic Nazis.
His father, Solomon Brin, was literate in seven languages his mother, Pia "Fannie" Brin, could neither read nor write. Herb Brin was born in 1915 in Chicago to a poor family of Jewish imigrants from Poland and Russia. Brin, who worked at his father's side for 25 years, called him "The very last of the old-time Front Page newspapermen, absolutely committed to every cause he felt just, from civil rights to the Santa Monica Mountains park."
He also was the author of six books of Jewish-themed poetry and two books about post-Holocaust Germany, Ich Bin Ein Jude and Where Are the Children?
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His death came 11 days shy of his 88th birthday and shortly after he completed his autobiography, pecked out with two fingers on a manual typewriter.īrin turned a mortgage on his house into a chain of Jewish community newspapers that prospered in the 1960s and 1970s, serving communities in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Central California.
6, at the Jewish Home for the Aging in Reseda. Herb Brin, pugnacious journalist, editor, poet and dogged campaigner for liberal and Jewish causes, died of congestive heart failure on Thursday, Feb.
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