The yidisher arbeyter

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The Yidisher arbeyter (German: Jewish workers) was in what is now Vilnius in Yiddish published magazine in 1896 as a magazine for the Yiddish-speaking workers in what was then the Empire Russia belonging Lithuania and Poland had been established and in Russia itself. The editor was Vladimir Kossowsky since December of the founding year .

With its sixth edition in March 1899, the magazine became an organ of the General Jewish Workers' Union , the Algemeyner yidisher Arbeyter Bund in Lite, Poyln un Rusland, or Der Bund for short . Due to the persecution of the workers' organization and the generally anti-Jewish attitude within the Russian government and people one in the late 1890s was Auslandskomittee the League , based in Geneva in Switzerland .

The strictly Marxist Bund also had other opinions printed in its magazine, such as those of Rosa Luxemburg or Chaim Schitlowsky . The editor of Der Yidischer arbeyter was until 1915 John Mill , who wrote further articles for the magazine and other Yidish publications after his emigration to the USA from Chicago .

In its later years the magazine dealt more with theoretical questions and the problems of individual nationalities in eastern Central Europe and in interwar Russia.

literature

  • Henry Jack Tobias: The Jewish Bund in Russia from its Origins to 1905 . Stanford, California, USA 1972.
  • Jack Lester Jacobs: Jewish Politics in Eastern Europe: The Bund at 100 . Palgrave, Basingstoke, England 2011, ISBN 0-333-75462-X .
  • Joshua Zimmerman: Poles, Jews and the Politics of Nationality: The Bund and the Polish Socialist Party in Late Tsarist Russia 1892-1914 . Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2004.