United Jewish Socialist Workers Party

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The United Jewish Socialist Workers' Party (Yiddish פֿאַראײניקטע ייִדישע סאָציאַליסטישע אַרבעטער־פּאַרטיי, Fareiniche Yidi Sotsialist Workers Party ) was a political party in Ukraine (1917-1920) and Poland (1917-1937). The chairman was Moische Zilberfarb .

history

The United Jewish Socialist Workers Party was formed in June 1917 from the Jewish Socialist Workers Party and the Zionist Socialist Workers Party . The aim was to create a Jewish secular national autonomy. She advocated “the unity of the Jewish working class as an integral part of an extraterritorial Jewish nation”.

In September 1917, she petitioned the new Provisional Government in Russia calling for the Yiddish language to be equal. In the 1917 elections it received 8% of the votes of the Jewish population.

In November 1917 Moische Zilberfarb became Minister for Jewish Affairs in the government of the newly independent Ukrainian People's Republic .

Publications of the party were the Naie Tsait (1917-1919) and The Yidischer proletarian in Kiev.

Former members helped found the Polish United Workers' Party .

literature

  • Jaff Schatz, Jews and the communist movement in interwar Poland , in: Jonathan Frankel, Dark Times, Dire Decisions: Jews and Communism , Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 20,79 online
  • Pinkus, Benjamin, The Jews of the Soviet Union: The History of a National Minority , Soviet and East European studies, Cambridge University Press, 1988, p. 44 online
  • Mintz, M., The Secretariat of Internationality Affairs of the Ukrainian General Secretariat (1917-1918) , Harvard Ukrainian Studies, VI / 1, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1982 online