Folk party
The Folk Party (Yiddish: ייִדישע פֿאָלקספּאַרטייַ, Yidishe folk party ) was after the pogroms of 1905 in Russia by Simon Dubnow and Israel Efrojkin founded to represent the interests of the Jewish minority. She propagated a “spiritual nationality” in which the diaspora was to be developed, a self-government of the Jewish communities, and rejected assimilation .
The party emerged from Jewish autonomism and existed in Russia until 1918, but remained meaningless there overall. The Folk Party took part in the elections in Poland after the First World War ( Jidisze Fołks-Partaj in Pojln , founded in 1916 by Noah Pryłucki and Samuel Hirszhorn ) and was temporarily represented in the Sejm . The party was also represented in the Seimas in Lithuania (led by Oizer Finkelstein since 1921) . However, the party quickly lost its importance in both countries and was ultimately destroyed by the Holocaust . Simon Dubnow and Noah Pryłucki were murdered as Jews by the Germans in 1941.
literature
- Folkspartei (Poland) , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 6, Col. 1410f.
- Folkspartei (Russia) , in: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1971, Volume 6, Sp. 1411f.