- Historian and professor who wrote on the anarchist movement in the United States and in Russia. Among his subjects was radical Johann Joseph Most, grandfather of Johnny Most.
- Aside from being a renowned scholar and historian, my uncle Paul Avrich was also an embezzler and common thief. He embezzled the sum of $125,000 in government issued bearer bonds from the estate of his deceased mother (my grandmother) Rose Avrich in an effort to deprive both myself and my mother (Paul's sister) Dorothy Avrich of our two-thirds entitlement to these funds (Paul was one-third beneficiary). His defense as presented through his attorney Sam Smith to the Miami-Dade Circuit probate division judge Robert H. Newman was "my mother wanted me to have the money for my children Jane and Karen" and it didn't fly. Jane Avrich and Karen Avrich were never mentioned in Rose Avrich's will. The judge appointed a monitor (attorney Paul Lipton) to investigate and the monitor concluded that there was indeed a theft. After a mediation hearing, Paul Avrich was ordered (as per a signed settlement agreement) to pay back the sum of $35,000 to the estate. Moral of the story here is that there was more to this man than meets the eye and people are only aware of his positive attributes, not his dark side. This information is all verifiable and contained in the estate of Rose Avrich court records.
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