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Please do not use unreliable, biased sources from Yugoslav Communist historiography. Do not revert reliably sourced clarifying content. Thank you. Jingiby ( talk) 13:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Biased edit means deletion of reliable source from the text and POV-pushing means to reject the academic consensus on the lack of ethnic Macedonian ethnic identity among the IMRO revolutionaries in the early 20th century and beyond. Full stop for now. Jingiby ( talk) 16:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you like to remove the {New page} tag? There are nearly 70 years from the life of that man, which are empty for now. Thank you. Jingiby ( talk) 09:50, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Kamhi was born in 1870 in Bitola, then in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Jewish school. As a young merchant, in 1894 he met Dame Gruev and became a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In 1896, he was the Bitola-delegat on the Thessaloniki Congress of the organization. During the renovation of the house of Kamhi-family on a proposal by Gruev there was made a special shelter for IMRO leaders, where the archive and the case of the organization were also kept. There were hidden in the coming years Gotse Delchev, Gyorche Petrov, Milan Matov, Pere Toshev, Boris Sarafov and others. Later it was discovered by the Ottoman authorities and Kamhi was arrested, but later he was released after paying a bribe. In 1901-1902 he participated in the " Miss Stone Affair." After the decision to rise the Ilinden Uprising, Kamhi became responding on the relations between the authorities in Bulgaria and the revolutionary organization. As a merchant he traveled offten, and that made him convenient for that purpose. By these special trips he met with a number of Bulgarian politicians, including Ferdinand I and the Crown Prince, later Bulgarian Tsar - Boris III. Along with these frequent visits to Bulgaria, some of which involved his brother, they both were suspected and arrested by the Ottoman authorities. Subsequently the brothers were interned in Debar. There they took part in the Ilinden Uprising in 1903. Later the brothers organized a campaign to raise funds to the victims of the uprising in the Jewish community in Macedonia. In 1905 Kamhi participated in the Rila Congress of IMRO.
After the subsequent split of the Organization, Kamhi maintained close links with left-wing activists of the Macedonian liberation movement as Gyorche Petrov and Dimo Hadzhidimov. He did not hide his dislike of the right wing activists. After the Balkan wars Bitola remained in Serbia and he moved to Xanthi, then part of Bulgaria. At the end of World War I he jojned the so-called Provisional representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization. The Temporary representation advocated for autonomy of Macedonia as a part of a Balkan Federation. It threatened the autonomous Macedonia as state populated by different people as Bulgarians, Greeks, Serbs, Turks, Vlahs, etc. Due to the threat of a second national disaster for Bulgaria, before the signing of the Treaty of Neuilly, he conducted in 1919 a meeting with the then Prime Minister Teodor Teodorov in Sofia. He was offered to move to Thessaloniki, where the headquarters of the Entente was locaded. He had to stand there wit aim to present the interests of Bulgaria to the victors in the war. With the permission of the French General Charpy, he settled and stayed to live in the city. It is said he continued to work unofficially for Bulgarian interests in the period between the two World wars, when living in Greece.
During World War II, after the occupation of Greece, Kamhi participated in the creation of Bulgarian Club in Thessaloniki. In 1943, Rafael Kamhi was arrested by the German occupying forces in the city and had to be sent to a concentration camp in Central Europe. With the support of the Macedonian Scientific Institute, Ilinden (Organization) and the advocacy of the President of the Union of Macedonian brotherhoods in Sofia, General Kosta Nikolov and the Bulgarian premier Bogdan Filov he was released. However his brother, who lived in Bitola, then annexed by Bulgaria, together with his relatives there, and all his relatives in German controlled Thessaloniki, were deported in Treblinka. One of the few survivors was his niece Rosa Kamhi, the daughter of his brother, that after the war married the Yugoslav General Benno Rouso.
After his rescuing Kamhi moved to Sofia, where he remained until 1949, when he moved to Israel. After the war, at the request of the Macedonian Scientific Institute and the Jewish Institute in Sofia, he began working on his memoirs, still in Bulgaria. From Tel Aviv he continued his correspondence with both Institutes in Sofia. He died in ripe old age in 1970 in Tel Aviv. All the memories of Rafael Kamhi are now kept in the Bulgarian State Archive in the so-called Jewish collection of books and documents. The collected memories of Rafael Kamhi were published under the title "I, the vojvoda Skender Bay" in 2000 in Sofia. In 2013, his memoirs were republished under the title "Rafael Kamhi: recollections of a Macedonian Jew revolutionary".
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Please do not use unreliable, biased sources from Yugoslav Communist historiography. Do not revert reliably sourced clarifying content. Thank you. Jingiby ( talk) 13:15, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Biased edit means deletion of reliable source from the text and POV-pushing means to reject the academic consensus on the lack of ethnic Macedonian ethnic identity among the IMRO revolutionaries in the early 20th century and beyond. Full stop for now. Jingiby ( talk) 16:08, 14 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you like to remove the {New page} tag? There are nearly 70 years from the life of that man, which are empty for now. Thank you. Jingiby ( talk) 09:50, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
Kamhi was born in 1870 in Bitola, then in the Ottoman Empire. He graduated from the Jewish school. As a young merchant, in 1894 he met Dame Gruev and became a member of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianople Revolutionary Organization. In 1896, he was the Bitola-delegat on the Thessaloniki Congress of the organization. During the renovation of the house of Kamhi-family on a proposal by Gruev there was made a special shelter for IMRO leaders, where the archive and the case of the organization were also kept. There were hidden in the coming years Gotse Delchev, Gyorche Petrov, Milan Matov, Pere Toshev, Boris Sarafov and others. Later it was discovered by the Ottoman authorities and Kamhi was arrested, but later he was released after paying a bribe. In 1901-1902 he participated in the " Miss Stone Affair." After the decision to rise the Ilinden Uprising, Kamhi became responding on the relations between the authorities in Bulgaria and the revolutionary organization. As a merchant he traveled offten, and that made him convenient for that purpose. By these special trips he met with a number of Bulgarian politicians, including Ferdinand I and the Crown Prince, later Bulgarian Tsar - Boris III. Along with these frequent visits to Bulgaria, some of which involved his brother, they both were suspected and arrested by the Ottoman authorities. Subsequently the brothers were interned in Debar. There they took part in the Ilinden Uprising in 1903. Later the brothers organized a campaign to raise funds to the victims of the uprising in the Jewish community in Macedonia. In 1905 Kamhi participated in the Rila Congress of IMRO.
After the subsequent split of the Organization, Kamhi maintained close links with left-wing activists of the Macedonian liberation movement as Gyorche Petrov and Dimo Hadzhidimov. He did not hide his dislike of the right wing activists. After the Balkan wars Bitola remained in Serbia and he moved to Xanthi, then part of Bulgaria. At the end of World War I he jojned the so-called Provisional representation of the former United Internal Revolutionary Organization. The Temporary representation advocated for autonomy of Macedonia as a part of a Balkan Federation. It threatened the autonomous Macedonia as state populated by different people as Bulgarians, Greeks, Serbs, Turks, Vlahs, etc. Due to the threat of a second national disaster for Bulgaria, before the signing of the Treaty of Neuilly, he conducted in 1919 a meeting with the then Prime Minister Teodor Teodorov in Sofia. He was offered to move to Thessaloniki, where the headquarters of the Entente was locaded. He had to stand there wit aim to present the interests of Bulgaria to the victors in the war. With the permission of the French General Charpy, he settled and stayed to live in the city. It is said he continued to work unofficially for Bulgarian interests in the period between the two World wars, when living in Greece.
During World War II, after the occupation of Greece, Kamhi participated in the creation of Bulgarian Club in Thessaloniki. In 1943, Rafael Kamhi was arrested by the German occupying forces in the city and had to be sent to a concentration camp in Central Europe. With the support of the Macedonian Scientific Institute, Ilinden (Organization) and the advocacy of the President of the Union of Macedonian brotherhoods in Sofia, General Kosta Nikolov and the Bulgarian premier Bogdan Filov he was released. However his brother, who lived in Bitola, then annexed by Bulgaria, together with his relatives there, and all his relatives in German controlled Thessaloniki, were deported in Treblinka. One of the few survivors was his niece Rosa Kamhi, the daughter of his brother, that after the war married the Yugoslav General Benno Rouso.
After his rescuing Kamhi moved to Sofia, where he remained until 1949, when he moved to Israel. After the war, at the request of the Macedonian Scientific Institute and the Jewish Institute in Sofia, he began working on his memoirs, still in Bulgaria. From Tel Aviv he continued his correspondence with both Institutes in Sofia. He died in ripe old age in 1970 in Tel Aviv. All the memories of Rafael Kamhi are now kept in the Bulgarian State Archive in the so-called Jewish collection of books and documents. The collected memories of Rafael Kamhi were published under the title "I, the vojvoda Skender Bay" in 2000 in Sofia. In 2013, his memoirs were republished under the title "Rafael Kamhi: recollections of a Macedonian Jew revolutionary".