Activity Jewish parties and political organizations in the South region in the early twentieth century

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Activity Jewish parties and political organizations in the South region in the early twentieth century

Journal Title: Наукові праці. Серія "Історія" - Year 2016, Vol 282, Issue 270

Abstract

The article is devoted to the peculiarities of formation of Jewish parties and political organizations in the South of Ukraine in the early twentieth century. Traces the processes of party branches and basic software requirements on the national question. The features of formation of a network of party cells one of the most influential socialist forces Jews – Bund (General Jewish Workers’ Union in Lithuania, Poland and Russia) to the revolution of 1905– 1907 in Odessa, Sevastopol, Ekaterinoslav, Nikolaev, Mariupol, Melitopol. The characteristic activities of the other party socialist direction – «Poalei-Zion» primary cells which in 1905 were related. Analyzed the formation movements of the party, the Zionist Socialist Workers Party, which supported the idea of a Jewish state in Uganda (with cells in Yekaterinoslav, Elisavetgrad, Mykolaiv, Odesa) and the Jewish Socialist Workers Party as advocate for the idea of national-territorial autonomy Jews (with activities in Yekaterynoslav, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Melitopol). The effect of the split «Poalei Zion» the formation in 1906 of a new political force – the Jewish Socialist Democratic Workers party «Poalei-Zion», a program which included the receipt of territorial autonomy for Jews in Palestine and demand the national political autonomy, covering economic and cultural interests. Determined that the party centers operated in Odessa, Yekaterinoslav Elisavetgrad, Simferopol. The author notes that Jewish liberal forces in the region were represented by the Union to achieve equality of Jews in Russia, parts of which were during 1905–1907 in Yekaterinoslav Odessa and Sevastopol. There followed what has become a significant impact activit-Zionist conservatives, had to promote the emigration of Jews to Palestine, the first cells appeared in the late nineteenth century in Nikolaev, later centers (with and all) cells were Zionists in Odessa and Yekaterinoslav. Socio-political organizations were well represented Jews Zionist organizations in Odessa club «Kadima», the Committee of the Jewish Colonial Society, Union of Zionist youth, «Hehover». Found evidence of episodic terytorialistskyh Jewish organizations aimed at creating autonomous Jewish settlements in any area (branches in Odessa and Yekaterinoslav). The author argues that Jewish movement in the early twentieth century in southern Ukraine gained considerable proportions that subsequently influenced the development and powerful work of Jewish parties and political organizations during the Central Rada, when it was created favorable conditions for social and political life representatives minority.

Authors and Affiliations

О. Yadlovska

Keywords

Jewish minority; political party; socio-political organization; socialists; Zionists; region; South Ukraine

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