Jewish Socialist Workers Party
| Jewish Socialist Workers Party | |
|---|---|
| Party leader | Chaim Schitlowski |
| founding | 1906 |
| resolution | 1917 |
| newspaper | Folks-Schtime (Vilnius, Kiev) Vosroschdenije |
| Alignment | socialist , “Sejmists”, not Marxist , not Zionist |
| Number of members | approx.15,000 (1916) |
The Jewish Socialist Workers' Party (Russian: Еврейская социалистическая рабочая партия ) was a party in Russia from 1906 to 1917. It stood up for the improvement of living conditions for Jews, for Jewish self-government in Russia, and for a socialist society.
history
In April 1906 the party was formed by intellectuals from the Vozroschdenije movement and members of the Zionist Socialist Workers' Party . Important leaders were Chaim Schitlowsky , Mark Ratner and Moische Zilberfarb . In 1906 the party had about 15,000 members.
Members of the party took part in fights and strikes of 1906 and 1907, u. a. in Ekaterinoslav and Rostov . In 1907 she joined the Party of Social Revolutionaries of Russia and thus became a member of the Second International . She had an advisory mandate at the 1907 Congress in Stuttgart.
In August 1917 it merged with the Zionist Socialist Workers 'Party to form the United Jewish Socialist Workers' Party .
literature
- Pinkus, Benjamin: The Jews of the Soviet Union: the history of a national minority , Cambridge University Press, 1988, pp. 44ff. on-line
- Еврейская социалистическая рабочая партия. In: Еврейская энциклопедия Брокгауза и Ефрона , St. Petersburg, 1906–1913