Louis Fles

Louis Fles

Infobox Writer
name = Louis Fles


imagesize = 250px
caption =
pseudonym = Dr. W. Bottema C.Az.
birthname =
birthdate = Birth date|1871|10|19
birthplace = Maassluis, Netherlands
deathdate = death date and age|1940|05|24|1871|10|19.
deathplace = Amsterdam, Netherlands
occupation = businessman, author, activist
nationality = Dutch, Jewish atheist
period = 1918-1939
genre = non-fiction
subject = assimilation, anti-Zionism, Nazism, business
movement =
notableworks = Forbidden radio-speech
Hitler, reformer or criminal
Away with Zionism!
spouse = Celine van Straaten
partner =
children = Mina, Rosine, Henriette, Clara, Barthold, George
relatives = Michael John Fles, Bart Berman, Thijs Berman, Giorgio van Straten
influences =
influenced =
awards =


website =
portaldisp =

Levie Jacob (Louis) Fles (1872-1940) was a Dutch businessman, activist and author. He is best known for writing and broadcasting against Zionism and organized religion.

Fles was a strong supporter of Jewish assimilation and had a complex relationship with the Dutch Social Democratic Workers' Party. He detested Nazism and committed suicide at the conquest of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany.

External links

* [http://www.iisg.nl/bwsa/bios/fles.html Biography of Levie Fles] at the Biographical Dictionary of Socialism and the Labor Movement in the Netherlands
* [http://shum.huji.ac.il/~dutchjew/genealog/Bosman/218.htm Louis Fles family page] at Akevoth


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