Joseph Baratz

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Joseph Baratz , ( Hebrew יוסף ברץ, * April 26th jul. / May 8,  1890 greg. in Coșnița , Cherson Governorate , Russian Empire , now in the Republic of Moldova ; died December 14, 1968 in Degania Alef , Israel ) was an Israeli kibbutz pioneer, politician and diplomat.

Joseph Baratz (1956)
Miriam and Joseph Baratz (ca.1913)
Miriam Baratz doing kibbutz work (n.d.)

Life

Baratz visited the cheder and was involved with the Zionist youth in Kishinev . After the pogroms in Ukraine and Bessarabia in 1903 and 1905, he was one of the many Jewish refugees who left the tsarist empire with the Aliyah . In 1906 he emigrated to Ottoman Palestine , where he worked in agriculture in the region of Petach Tikwa , Rechovot and as a stonemason in Jerusalem , Tel Aviv , Atlit and in Zichron Ja'akow .

In 1910 Baratz was among the founders of the first kibbutz in Degania (later Degania Alef) on the Sea of ​​Galilee , where he lived from then on, married Miriam Ostrovsky (1889-1970) in 1912 and had seven children. They introduced new forms of family life in the kibbutz.

Baratz was a member of the HaPoel HaZair party and was a member of parliament in Palestine for them . He was a member of the Zionist paramilitary organization Haganah , on whose leadership committee he rose. He was sent to Russia on a diplomatic mission by the Histadrut union in 1919 . Further missions were in 1921, 1926 and 1931 in the USA and Canada and in 1934 in Austria . From the 12th Zionist Congress in 1921, he was a regular participant in the following congresses. During World War II he campaigned for the recruitment of the Jewish Brigade in British Palestine and was chairman of the brigade's support committee.

After the establishment of the state of Israel, he was elected to the Knesset in the first parliamentary election on the Mapai list in 1949. In the 1951 election , he left again.

Fonts (selection)

  • Settlers on the Jordan: the story of the first kibbutz (=  the seven star ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1954, OCLC 222260589 (English: A village by the Jordan: the story of Degania . Translated by Elisabeth Bäumer with the assistance of Christoph Henn, 2nd edition 1963).
  • Eretz Israel in self defense . Keren Hayesod, Jerusalem 1938.

literature

Web links

Commons : Yossef Baratz  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ As the government of origin according to the entry in the Knesset: Podolia .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Yosef Baratz , at Knesset (en)
  3. ↑ a b Smadar Sinai: Miriam Baratz , at Jewish Women's Archive (JWA)
  4. ↑ Michael Brown: A case of limited vision: Jabotinsky on Canada and the United States , in: Canadian Jewish Studies, 1 (1993) pp. 1-25
personal data
SURNAME Baratz, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES יוסף ברץ (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli kibbutzim and politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Coșnița , Cherson Governorate, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1968
Place of death Degania Alef , Israel