Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda

The Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda (אַרבעטער-רינג - ברית עבודה lit., The Labor Alliance) was the Israeli branch of the International Jewish Labor Bund, launched in 1951 and disbanded in 2019.[1]

Arbeter-ring in Yisroel – Brith Haavoda

אַרבעטער-רינג - ברית עבודה
PresidentJosef Fraind
Founded1951
Headquarters48 Kalisher Street, Tel-Aviv 65165 (until 2019[1])
IdeologyBundism
Socialism
International affiliationInternational Jewish Labor Bund
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Staff

Secretaries

Its first secretary was Isachar (Oskar) Artuski (birth name: Eichenbaum/Aykhenboym, 1903 or 1908-1971), a former Polish Communist who had joined the Bund in 1935. He was also the founder and first editor of Lebns Fragn (see below) and a correspondent of an American Trotskyist magazine “Labor Action”.[2]

Since 2006 the present secretary has been Josef Fraind, who immigrated to Israel from Warsaw in 1952.[3]

Other

Bella Bryks-Klein has been the Director of Cultural Events and Library since January 2007 to the present.[4]

Electoral participation

The Israeli Bund chapter presented a list at the 1959 Knesset election, under the name Socialist Union, but failed to win a seat with only 1,322 votes (0.1%).[2][5]

Lebns Fragn

The Israeli Bundist magazine was Lebns Fragn (Yiddish: לעבנס־פֿראַגן‎, Life questions), founded in May 1951 by Isachar Artuski, the responsible editor was Ben-Zion "Bentsl" Tsalevitsh (1883-1967), who moved to Mandatory Palestine in 1922. After Artuski's death in November 1971, Yitskhok Luden became its editor.[6] Ceased publication in 2014.

Sources
  1. Shani Littman, "An anti-Zionist Movement That Promoted Judaism as a Secular Culture Shuts Its Doors", Haaretz, 19 September 2019
  2. Grabsky, August (August 10, 2005). "The Anti-Zionism of the Bund (1947-1972)". Workers' Liberty. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  3. "Israel's Yiddish Romance". Eretz Magazine. nr. 106. December 2006. Retrieved 2009-11-04.
  4. https://www.facebook.com/bella.bryksklein?ref=mf#/bella.bryksklein?v=info&ref=mf
  5. the program for these elections was published under the title: Yiddish: Igud sotsialisti Bund, b.-Y. Vol-platform fun "Bund" tsu der ferter Kneset. Tel Aviv : Igud sotsialisti "Bund" be-Yisrael, 1959‎, cf. Social Movements: Bund, Brief bibliography of Yiddish sources
  6. ""לעבנס-פֿראַגן" (Lebns Fragn)" (in Yiddish). Tel Aviv: לעבנס-פֿראַגן. Retrieved 2009-11-04.

Iconography

Filmography
  • Bundists in Israel (Bundaiim), 2007 (director: Eran Turbiner), see the synopsis page on the website bundism.net and the director's short bio on the same site
  • "The Bund: Utopia For Real", 1998(?) (Director: Izzy Abrahami), "From the members of the Israeli Bund club in Tel Aviv we hear of the oppression the Bundists have suffered in Zionist Israel..." For more information
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