Jewish Labor Movement Research Articles

Frager, Ruth A. Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900–1939

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Sweatshop strife: class, ethnicity, and gender in the Jewish labour movement of Toronto, 1900-1939

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Frager, Ruth. Sweatshop Strife. Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939

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The Blue and the Yellow Star of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939-1945 (review)

VoLume 9. No.3 Spring 1991 157 in principle with establishing diplomatic relations [with Israel]. However, there are certain difficulties and problems that the Holy See would first want to have resolved." For a book on diplomacy, Kreutz has written a readable and at times interesting chronicle. Though hindered by the closure of part of the Vatican archives, Kreutz's analysis is detailed and important. The accusation by Jews, including Jewish progressives, that the Vatican policy toward Israel is antiJewish is hardly substantiated by Kreutz, and the present policy toward Israel seems almost generous compared to most international organizations. Unfortunately , perhaps the underlying meaning of Kreutz's analysis is that neither Jews nor Palestinians, separate or together, have much importance in the rarefied atmosphere of those who claim to carry forward the message of the messiah. MarcH. Ellis Maryknoll School ofTheology Maryknoll, New York . The Blue and the Yellow Star of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939-1945, by DinaPorat. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990. 334 pp. $27.95. Researchers who have spoken out against the indictment of the role played by American Jewry during the Holocaust have special reason to welcome this book. Dina Porat at last gives us a standard against which the American Jewish posture during the Holocaust can be measured. Although the Yishuv was smaller and in a far different strategic position, the problems faced by its leadership during the crisis are familiar. As in America, the Zionist movement in Palestine was painfully slow to understand the threat facing European Jewry. It also lacked power to meet the challenge. In contrast to the World War I period, where notions of Jewish power were exaggerated, during World War II there was an almost total lack of leverage with the Allied governments. The Jews wer~ neither wanted nor needed to help win the war. Above all, the movement was torn by deep divisions. There was a constant fear that the Revisionists, on the Right, would make political capital out of the crisis. On the Left there was the ideological challenge of Communism, which the Jewish labor movement had barely warded off. As was the case in American Zionism, there were bitter bitter personal conflicts within the leadership. But most vexing was the persistent inability to believe that a systematic mass murder operation was being conducted as a matter of public policy by a modern state. Until 1944 the 158 SHOFAR leadership of the Yishuv assumed that the gruesome stories they heard were exaggerated and that a portion of Europe's Jews would survive to build the Yishuv. This despite its superior sources of information, which included exchangees . Some came to believe that leaders like Ben Gurion had simply written off European Jewry. The leadership gave priority to the security of the settlements. "In Palestine," Porat relates, "daily life continued scarcely affected by the war, indeed the war accelerated economic development ..." (p. 62). The same observation has been made regarding American Jewish life during the war. But there the analogy with American Jewry ends. The Jewish Agency administered the Yishuv under the close supervision of London, where real power resided. It was charged with safeguarding the welfare of its constituency , Palestinian Jewry. Everything beyond that was secondary. If Porat had gone back to the conflict over the boycott, which the Jewish Agency Executive (AlE) broke because of its need to maintain the transfer agreement with the Reich, or had she scrutinized the policy followed for resettlement of Jews outside Palestine, which it also opposed, the dilemma of the Yishuv leadership might have come into even sharper perspective. Although "negation of the golah" played some minor role in determining priorities, Zionist leaders were aware that the population stock being destroyed was requisite for the suCcess of its enterprise. Something else interfered with a direct response to the Final Solution-its anomalous position as a legal governmental body. Whether it concerned the activities of the International Committee of the Red Cross, the Vatican, or neutral or allied governments, whenever such agencies or governments were involved in rescue, their priorities reflected first and foremost their own security and well-being. The Jewish Agency was no exception to this...

Class and Ethnic Barriers to Feminist Perspectives in Toronto’s Jewish Labour Movement, 1919–1939

The history of Toronto's Jewish labour movement provides a critical context for examining the relationship between feminist and socialist currents in Canada's past. It also illuminates the relationship between these currents and ethnic identity within a key section of the working class. In the 1920s and 1930s, Toronto's Jewish labour movement was not only militant but also had a strong radical cast: the Jewish unions were led primarily by socialists and contained a significant socialist component within their rank and file as well. Furthermore, as in the United States, the Jewish labour movement was concentrated in the garment industry an industry with a highly unusual gender composition of labour. During most of the period under consideration, women constituted over half of Toronto's garment workers. A significant number of the Jewish women were active not only as trade-union militants but also as socialists. An examination of the Jewish labour movement in the interwar period thus provides an opportunity to study the historical interaction between class and gender in the context of both trade-union and socialist politics. 1

Jewish Revolutionaries and the Jewish Labor Movement

Jewish Revolutionaries and the Jewish Labor Movement

Striden mellan Iskraanhängarna och Bund vid RSDRP:s andra kongress 1903

The Bund, which was set up in 1897 and the leading Jewish worker organization in Tsarist Russia, was also a member organization of the Russian Social-Democratic Party (RSDRP) and had played an outstanding role in its foundation in 1898. At the Second Party Congress, which was held in Brussels and London in July-August 1903, strong disagreements between the Party and the Bund in organizational matters resulted in the latter’s dramatic withdrawal from the Party. In the present paper, the author examines those disagreements through a systematic analysis of the Congress debated. An introductory section briefly reviews the situation of the Jews in Tsarist Russia, the growth of the Jewish labour movement, and the strained relations between the Bund and the Party, which from 1900 on was dominated by the Iskraites, i.e. Lenin and his collaborators. This is followed by a record of the debated in abridged form and a short presentation of the most distinguished spokesmen of the opposite camps, notably Julius Martov from the Iskra group and the 23-year-old Mark Liber from the Bund.

The Jewish labour movement: Some historiographical problems∗

The Jewish labour movement: Some historiographical problems∗

Ethnic, Class and Gender Dynamics among Jewish Labour Activists and Jewish Human Rights Activists

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The Early Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

The Early Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

The Jewish labor movement in America: A social interpretation

The Jewish labor movement in America: A social interpretation

The Early Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

The Early Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: World War I to the Present

Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: World War I to the Present

Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: World War I to the Present

Analyzes the Jewish labor movement in the U.S from 1914 to 1952. Concern with industrial stabilization; Stability of collective bargaining; Persistence of Jewish leadership in organizations; Maintenance of the Jewish self-consciousness. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: Early Years to World War I

Relatively little work has been done on the contributions made to the American trade union movement by specific religious or ethnic groups. In the past we have published several papers dealing with the Catholic trade union movement in the United States. In this article the author analyzes the cultural, political, and ideological factors in the Jewish labor unions and other workers' organizations and their impact on the American scene generally. In the October issue a second article by the author will present an analysis of the history from World War I to our own day. This study was made possible by a grant from the American Jewish Committee and is published in this Review with the permission of the committee. (Author's abstract courtesy EBSCO.)

Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: Early Years to World War I

Jewish Labor Movement in the United States: Early Years to World War I

The History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

The History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States. Edited by E. Tcherikower. [Yiddish Scientific Institute, Section of History.] Volume I. (New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute. 1943. Pp. 414.)

History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States. Edited by E. Tcherikower. [Yiddish Scientific Institute, Section of History.] Volume I. (New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute. 1943. Pp. 414.) Get access History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States. Edited by Tcherikower E.. [Yiddish Scientific Institute, Section of History.] Volume I. (New York: Yiddish Scientific Institute. 1943. Pp. 414.) Boris Sapir Boris Sapir New York City Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 49, Issue 4, July 1944, Pages 763–764, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/49.4.763 Published: 01 July 1944

History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States

History of the Jewish Labor Movement in the United States