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Moscovici Gelber (or Gelbert, Ghelber, modern Gilbert) (1895–1938) was a Romanian Jew born in Jassy. He was one of the founders of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) and engaged in terrorist-like actions and pro-communist subversive activity in Romania during the interwar period.

He was known under the pseudonym of Ghiţă Moscu (modern Moşu) and had the conspiracy name of Bădulescu Alexandru.

Early Life
Before the First World War he was engaged in antimilitarist and pacifism movements by writing articles in a youth socialist paper and held one of the three top positions in the commercial employees’ trade union. He then went towards communism being arested and jailed in December 1918 for “attack on public security”. With his wife Anna he went to the Soviet Union in 1921.

Communist politician
During the Third Comintern Congress he was elected member of the ECCI as the only ethnic Romanian representative of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) and Haia Hutschneker (under the pseudonym of Bădulescu Anna or Clara, Asea ), his wife, was elected in the International Woman's Secretariat. After that he spent most of his time in Moscow and wrote for the Comintern press.

Moscovici was the RCP permanent delegate to the Comintern. His wife was a member of the RCP and his brother, Moscovici Ilie (Bădulescu Ilie) was one of the leaders of the Romanian socialist movement. Ilie was a centrist in the Socialist Party of Romania and when it transformed into the RCP he left and founded a new political formation - Romanian Social Democratic Party with other former members in 1922.

Ghiţă Moscu was entrusted with a high position in the MASSR but eventually was killed during the Great Purge of 1938, accused of “bourgeois nationalism". He was later rehabilitated, first in the USSR and then in Romania, during the late 60s.

Legacy
On 8 December 1920, Moscovici, together with Max Goldstein, Leon Lichtblau, and Saul Ozias, organized a politically motivated bombing in front of the Romanian Senate.

During the Tatarbunary revolt in 1924, Moscovici was nominated one of the three main leaders by the Executive Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. The others were Max Goldstein and the ethnic Russian Kalifarski.