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Sejmist
The Jewish Socialist Workers Party (, 'SERP', which means 'sickle' in Russian), often nicknamed ''Seymists'', was a Jewish socialist political party in the Russian Empire. The party was founded in April 1906, emerging out of the ''Vozrozhdenie'' (Renaissance) circles. The ''Vozrozhdenie'' was a non-Marxist tendency which was led by the nonmarxist thinker and politician Chaim Zhitlowsky. Zhitlowsky became the theoretician of the new party that advocated with the same emphasis Jewish self-reliance and socialism. Leaders of the party included Avrom Rozin ( Ben-Adir), Nokhem Shtif, Moyshe Zilberfarb and Mark Ratner. The party was close to the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR).Pinkus, Benjamin. The Jews of the Soviet Union: the history of a national minority. (Soviet and East European Studies)'. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988; p. 44 The party favored the idea of a Jewish National Assembly (a Seym). It envisaged a federation of nationalities in Russia, each led by an ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chaim Zhitlowsky
Chaim Zhitlowsky (Yiddish: חײם זשיטלאָװסקי; ) (April 19, 1865 – May 6, 1943) was a Jewish Socialism, socialist, philosopher, social and political thinker, writer and literary critic born in Ushachy Raion, Ushachy, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Ushachy District, Usachy Raion, Vitebsk Region, Belarus). He was a founding member and theoretician of the Union of Russian Socialist Revolutionaries Abroad and the Socialist Revolutionary Party in Russia, and a key promoter of Yiddishism and Jewish Diaspora politics, Diaspora nationalism, which influenced the Jewish Jewish Territorialist Organization, territorialist and Zionism, nationalist movements. He was an advocate of Yiddish language, Yiddish culture, culture and was a vice-president of the Czernowitz Conference, Czernowitz Yiddish Language Conference of 1908, which declared Yiddish to be "a national language of the Jewish people." Biography Early years Chaim Zhitlowsky was born in 1865, in the small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
