David Knout

Dovid Knout (1900–1955), born in Orhei, Moldova is a Russian Jewish poet, who, with his wife Régine-Ariane (1906–1944) and others, established a secret organization called La Main Forte (the strong hand) which became the Armee Juive (AJ or Jewish Army), a World War II resistance movement. The leaders of the Armee Juive also intended to prepare for a war against Britain in order to liberate Israel in order to create a Jewish state. His wife, the daughter of the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, was ambushed and killed by members of the French Militia wile holding a AJ meeting at her flat in Toulouse.

References

• Dovid Knout, Contribution à l’histoire de la Résistance juive en France, 1940-1944 (Paris: Éditions du Centre, 1944),
• Abraham Polonski and the Jewish resistance in France during the Second World War by Yehuda Ben-David, Yaʻel Zaidman, Miśrad ha-bitaḥon, 2002
• L'armée juive clandestine en France: 1940-1945 by Raphaël Delpard, Page après page, 2002.
• Jews in France during World War II by Renée Poznanski, Nathan Bracher, 2001.
• Les Juifs dans la résistance et la libération: histoire, témoignages, débats by Yves-Claude Aouate, Anne Grynberg, 1985.
• Blessed is the match: the story of Jewish resistance By Marie Syrkin, 1976.
• Contribution à l'histoire de la résistance juive en France, 1940-1944 by David Knout. Editions du Centre, 1947.

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Name	Knout, David
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Date of birth	1900
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Date of death	1955
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