BERICHT DES ZENTRALEN KOMITEES DER "JÜDISCHEN SOZIALISTISCHEN ARBEITERPARTEI" ZUM INTERNATIONALEN SOZIALISTISCHEN ARBEITER-KONGRESS IN STUTTGART 1907: ÜBER DIE ENTWICKLUNG UND TÄTIGKEIT DIESER PARTEI
Stuttgart: Druck der Süddeutschen Druckereigesellschaft, 1907. with no dust jacket. Item #43509
1st edition. Original printed paper wrappers, 8vo, 48 pages. 22 cm. In German. Title translates as, “Report of the Central Committee of the ‘Jewish Socialist Workers' Party’ to the International Socialist Workers' Congress in Stuttgart, 1907: On the d-Development and Activities of this Party.
“The Jewish labor movement developed in two directions, closely connected with the way in which the solution to the national problem in general, and the Jewish national problem in particular, was conceived.
The Bund and the Poalei-Zion (Zionist Workers) were the two organizations of the Jewish proletarian masses in which the two directions found their outward expression.
The Bund was initially dominated by an assimilationist sentiment, which it adopted from the Jewish cultural intelligentsia. However, to the extent that it penetrated and took root among the masses, it gradually became more and more nationalized and finally became an independent Jewish workers' party, which formulated its own program for the solution of the national (and Jewish) question in Russia: autonomy of the peoples (and the Jewish people) in purely cultural matters
The ‘Poalei-Zion’ arrived at a similar result, proceeding from the opposite pole. They were initially under the influence of the Zionist ‘intelligentsia’ and were permeated by a corresponding sentiment.
Complete isolation of the Jewish people from all other peoples, of the Jewish proletariat from the entire working class of Russia, was the fundamental tenet of their activity. However, the more this direction penetrated the proletarian masses, the more it freed itself from the idea of ??national exclusivity and isolation that had been imposed upon it. Gradually, it too approached the model of an independent Jewish division of the international workers' army.
The emergence of ‘Poalei-Zion,’ from whose ranks the ‘Jewish Socialist Workers' Party’ arose, dates back to the end of the 1890s. About six years ago, the first (secret) congress of Poalei-Zionist organizations took place. This was the first attempt to give the Poalei-Zionist worldview a unified theoretical basis and to create a literary and propaganda center. This first attempt failed in every respect.
The Poalei-Zionist groups and organizations, scattered across the vast territory of the Jewish settlement area, remained largely on their own. In the long run, such an isolated and fragmented existence was bound to become unbearable, all the more so since in many places—such as in southern and southwestern Russia, where the Jewish workers' movement marched for a considerable time exclusively under the banner of Poalei-Zion, and even partly in Lithuania and Poland— (the then ‘district’ of the ‘League’), particularly in places where the ‘League’ had not yet gained a foothold, it was incumbent upon Poalei-Zion not only to find ways and means to best solve the Jewish question, but also to participate actively in the daily work, in the areas of theory and practice of the general labor movement” (pages 3-4, translated).
SUBJECT(S): Socialism -- Russia.
OCLC: 38810307. OCLC locates only 4 copies in North America (YIVO, Hoover, IndianaU, NYU), none at any Ivy League institution. Light wear, about Very Good Condition (B) (GER-62-1-S).
Price: $150.00